The Subversive Imagination

Part one Personal Responsibility and Political Contingencies; Chapter 1 The Prehistory of Art, Page duBois; Chapter 2 A Pled for Irresponsibility, Ewa Kuryluk; Chapter 3 Dead Doll Prophecy, Kathy Acker; Chapter 4 The Heuristic Power of Art, Elizam Escobar; Chapter 5 Place, Position, Power, Politics, Martha Rosler; Chapter 6 The Velvet Revolution and Iron Necessity, Eva Hauser; Chapter 7 El Diario de Miranda/Miranda's Diary, Coco Fusco; Part two Decolinizing the Imagination; Chapter 8 Herbert Marcuse and the Subversive Potential of Art, Carol Becker; Chapter 9 East and West-The Twain do Meet A Tale of More than Two Worlds, Felipe Ehrenberg; Chapter 10 Defining South African Literature for a New Nation, Njabulo S. Ndebele; Chapter 11 The Politics of Black Masculinity and the Ghetto in Black Film, Michael Eric Dyson; Chapter 12 Adjusting to the World According to Salman Rushdie, Ahmad Sadri; Part three Theorizing the Future; Chapter 13 Benetton's "World without Borders", Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 14 The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura, Guillermo Gomez-Pena; Chapter 15 Dissed and Disconnected, B. Ruby Rich;