Radical Relevance
Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left
Published on 20. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-7914-6274-4 (ISBN)
Description
Exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change.
In an effort to rethink the left, this interdisciplinary collection weaves together some of today's most powerful voices in contemporary left critical thought as they examine the fragmentation of American movements for social change, evaluate what critical scholarship might contribute to the task of renewing (or creating) a more unified and efficacious left, and explore the left's possibly inadequate dealings with many marginalized groups. Representing a diverse range of theoretical perspectives within several "textual" disciplines, the essays assess historical, practical, or speculative models for a "whole left"-a left constituted by a broad range of complexly interwoven interests, including issues of class, environment, gender, sexuality, disability, race, and ethnicity. The book exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change.
In an effort to rethink the left, this interdisciplinary collection weaves together some of today's most powerful voices in contemporary left critical thought as they examine the fragmentation of American movements for social change, evaluate what critical scholarship might contribute to the task of renewing (or creating) a more unified and efficacious left, and explore the left's possibly inadequate dealings with many marginalized groups. Representing a diverse range of theoretical perspectives within several "textual" disciplines, the essays assess historical, practical, or speculative models for a "whole left"-a left constituted by a broad range of complexly interwoven interests, including issues of class, environment, gender, sexuality, disability, race, and ethnicity. The book exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6274-4 (9780791462744)
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Persons
At Northern Arizona University, Laura Gray-Rosendale and Steven Rosendale are Associate Professors of English. Gray-Rosendale is the coeditor (with Gil Harootunian) of Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation and the coeditor (with Sibylle Gruber) of Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition, both also published by SUNY Press. Rosendale is the editor of The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment.
Content
Introduction
Toward a Scholarship of the "Whole Left"
Steven Rosendale
I. Legacies of Marxism
1. Black Nationalist Identity and Internationalist Class Unity: The Political and Cultural Legacy of Marxism
Alan Wald
2. Race, Class, and Communism: The Young Ralph Ellison and the "Whole Left"
Barbara Foley
3. Toward a Political Economy of Rhetoric (or a Rhetoric of Political Economy)
Victor Villanueva
II. Left Coalitions Beyond the Triad
4. The Left Side of the Circle: American Indians and Progressive Politics
Scott Richard Lyons
5. Reconciling Red and Green
Michael Bennett
6. A Monstrous Emerge-agency: Cripping the "Whole Left"
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Wendy L. Chrisman, Marian E. Lupo
7. What the Left Left Out
Derek Owens
III. The Academic Left, Critical Theory, and the Global Context
8. Globalizing Dissent and Radicalizing Democracy: Politics, Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Critical Intellectuals
Henry A. Giroux
9. Toward a Contemporary Philosophy of Praxis
Noah De Lissovoy, Peter McLaren
10. Global/Local Labor Politics and the Promise of Service Learning
Wendy S. Hesford
11. Between School and Work: Classroom and Class
Evan Watkins
12. Another World Is Possible
Mark Wood
13. Feminism(s) and the Left: A Discussion with Linda Martin Alcoff
Laura Gray-Rosendale
Contributors
Index
Toward a Scholarship of the "Whole Left"
Steven Rosendale
I. Legacies of Marxism
1. Black Nationalist Identity and Internationalist Class Unity: The Political and Cultural Legacy of Marxism
Alan Wald
2. Race, Class, and Communism: The Young Ralph Ellison and the "Whole Left"
Barbara Foley
3. Toward a Political Economy of Rhetoric (or a Rhetoric of Political Economy)
Victor Villanueva
II. Left Coalitions Beyond the Triad
4. The Left Side of the Circle: American Indians and Progressive Politics
Scott Richard Lyons
5. Reconciling Red and Green
Michael Bennett
6. A Monstrous Emerge-agency: Cripping the "Whole Left"
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Wendy L. Chrisman, Marian E. Lupo
7. What the Left Left Out
Derek Owens
III. The Academic Left, Critical Theory, and the Global Context
8. Globalizing Dissent and Radicalizing Democracy: Politics, Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Critical Intellectuals
Henry A. Giroux
9. Toward a Contemporary Philosophy of Praxis
Noah De Lissovoy, Peter McLaren
10. Global/Local Labor Politics and the Promise of Service Learning
Wendy S. Hesford
11. Between School and Work: Classroom and Class
Evan Watkins
12. Another World Is Possible
Mark Wood
13. Feminism(s) and the Left: A Discussion with Linda Martin Alcoff
Laura Gray-Rosendale
Contributors
Index