Literature of Protest (Critical Insights)

Adeline Koscher, PhD 2006

A survey of fiction that examines society and politics from the margins, often with radical and alternative views of the world. It brings together a set of critical perspectives on a fairly diverse set of texts, although most fit into the category of fiction, and most were written by American authors.

Many of the works featured in Critical Insights: Literature of Protest are well known and have been studied before, but they are not usually examined as a part of a tradition of protest literature. Original critical essays on a diverse collection of writers highlight Harriety Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and many others.

The literature of protest is defined as fiction and poetry that emerges from minority social positions and will critique majority status quo conditions. This literature covers a wide range of periods and will emerge from a variety of international authors and events, from American abolitionist narratives to the critique of the totalitarianism in 1920s Soviet politics.

ISBN: 978-1429838269