Politically Red by Eduardo Cadava - ISBN: 9780262047807
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Fight injustice: reading and writing ignite collective political change.

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    384 pages

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    9 January 2024

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Summary

“Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262047807
ISBN-10:0262047802
Author:Eduardo Cadava, Sara Nadal-Melsio
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:9 January 2024
Weight:567g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm
About The Author

Eduardo Cadava

Eduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. His books include Words of Light- Theses on the Photography of History, Emerson and the Climates of History, and Paper Graveyards.

Sara Nadal-Melsi is a New York City-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher. Presently writer-in-residence at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, she has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, SOMA in Mexico City, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals, edited volumes, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of Alrededor de/ Around, and the editor of two special issues on cinema, The Invisible Tradition- Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and The Militant Image- Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She has recently cocurated a show on Allora & Calzadilla for the Fundaci Tapies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it, To Be All Ears, To Be in the World- Acoustic Relation in Allora & Calzadilla, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis, A Modest Proposal- Puerto Rico’s Crucible. Her book Europe and the Wolf- Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books.

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