{"product_id":"what-democracy-looks-like-9780813537177","title":"What Democracy Looks Like","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollectively urging scholars and educators to pay attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this book inaugurates a critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a crucial link in the growing need to merge theory and practice with the goal of reconnecting the ivory tower elite to the activists on the street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive and eclectic collection that does a compelling job of addressing contemporary concerns over resistance to globalism, capitalism, and continuing attempts to silence dissenters.-Emory Elliott, editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Critical Realism; Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi; A Short World History of \"\"Seattle\"\": 1994-2005; Body Count\/Bodies Count; 1. Working-Class Actuality: \"\"The Great Unexamined\"\"; Janet Zandy; 2. Crane and the Body Count; Cindy Weinstein; 3. Why Set a Free Man Free? Mark Twain, Empire and Gender; Amy Kaplan. 4. Welcoming the Unbidden: The Case for Human Biodiversity Rosemarie Garland Thomson; 5. Consumer Compassion: The \"\"Face\"\" of Global AIDS Roger Hallas Experiments in Reality; 7. \"\"There is evil in the world an I'm going to do something about it\"\": William Faulkner as Political Resource Joseph R. Urgo; 8. Rhetoric, Politics, and Ethics in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo James Phelan; 9. Fear and Loathing in Globalization Fredric Jameson; 10. Hawthorne and Class Teresa Goddu; 11. Experiments in Reality: Wycoff's Workers Jonathan Prude The Commons; 12. Cooper and the Tragedy of the Commons Dana D. Nelson; 13. Looks the Same to Me: Post Seattle, Post Sealth Paula Gunn-Allen; 14. Agriculture, Empire, and Ecology: Re-Farming the New World Order Scott Hicks; 15. History's Place Markers in Memory: 1954 and 1999 Thadious M. Davis; 16. Along the Border Bill V. Mullen; 17. Tomato Pickers and the Challenges of Today's Classrooms Judith Scott Girgus; 18. Langston Hughes on the Historically White Campus Joanne M. Braxton Art and Activism; 19. Where the Language Discovers Itself Carolyn Forche; 20. Deep Water, No Life Rafts George Saunders; 21. Not Yet Global Citizens Laurie Garret; 22. The Anti-Tribalist Identity-Based Movement for Pluralist Democracy Tony Kushner Another World is Possible; 23. Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement Michael Denning; 24. Ivory Towers, Velvet Gloves Daniel Lang-Levitsky; 25. The Status of Intellectual Authority and the Promise of Democracy Silvio Torres-Saillant; 26. Teaching After the Battle in Seattle: This is What Plutocracy Looks Like George Lipsitz Notes on Contributors.","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038413291863,"sku":"9780813537177","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813537177.jpg?v=1750940260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-democracy-looks-like-9780813537177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}