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- Title
Mobilizing Literature: Social Movements and Post-1945 US Literary Studies.
- Authors
Lawrence, Jeffrey
- Abstract
This essay proposes a movements-based method for studying the development of US literature after World War II. It argues that the cultural materialist and institutionalist frameworks that have dominated post-1945 US literary studies in recent years have systematically overlooked the role of social movements as catalysts for cultural change. Through readings of the literary magazine n+1, the archival materials of Octavia Butler, and novels by a range of other major postwar US authors, it offers an account of how the collective mobilizations of the past sixty years—from Civil Rights, the New Left, and the Women's Movement to Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo—have decisively shifted the contours of the US literary field.
- Subjects
FEMINISM; CULTURAL movements; OCCUPY Wall Street protest movement; SOCIAL change; BLACK Lives Matter movement; SOCIAL movements
- Publication
ELH, 2024, Vol 91, Issue 3, p873
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2024.a936616