First of the Year: 2008Benj DeMott Transaction Publishers, 2011/12/31 - 463 ページ This is the first in a continuing series of reminders that the past informs the present as it infuses the future. As Benj DeMott notes, the aim of First of the Year is to define "the democratic imperatives and demotic tones that make our ongoing politics of culture matter." This annual publication is grounded in the needs of "dissed" people: disenfranchised, disadvantaged, disinherited, discomfited, and dismissed. But the concept has been sharpened to acknowledge that though the underdog is owed sympathy, the mad dog is owed a bullet. In short, First of the Year is very much an effort of the twenty-first century. The publication aims to be more than a launching pad for writers. It attempts to bridge the gap between radical perspectives without losing focus on the centrality of African-American culture to the national conversation. The coming together of figures like Armond White, Kate Millett, Lorenzo Thomas, Russell Jacoby, Adolph Reed, and Amiri Baraka is quite unlike what can be found in standard literary and social publications. They treat the African-American condition as a policy issue or an executive summary report--not as a touchstone for the state of the nation as a whole. The initial volume also deals extensively and seriously with the issue of humanism and terror, the nature of social movements, electoral and urban politics, and the musical trends of our time. It does so with a sense of urgency often denied in mainstream literary reviews. Issues of "standards" are addressed from the angle of African-American cultural traditions, and the mind-body problem as a matter of race not just of metaphysics. In a nutshell, this volume intends to open a new chapter in the Harlem Renaissance; or better, an American renaissance with a Harlem lilt. First of the Year is an attempt to make political arguments breathe through cultural voices. Contributors include Sheldon Wolin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Berman, Charles Keil, and Philip Levine, among others, ensuring its ability to entertain. |
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目次
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One of Us | 21 |
Play Fuckin Loud | 24 |
Safe American Home | 29 |
Head of State | 226 |
Ghazal of Twat | 229 |
What Salvation Must Be Like After a While | 230 |
Part VII | 239 |
History Gets Lost in the Matrix | 240 |
A Mighty Wind | 246 |
Grossmanism | 255 |
Death by Cookie Cutter | 261 |
Nothing New Under the Sun | 34 |
Inside the Whale | 46 |
AN AFTERNOON WAN AGNOSTIC | 53 |
Death from Above | 54 |
A Fascinating Fear of Fascism | 55 |
In My Lonely Room | 58 |
Common Cruelty | 63 |
World Body | 64 |
Part II | 67 |
Bliss | 70 |
Before the War | 73 |
Stop Breaking Down | 74 |
Weapons of Criticism Criticism of Weapons | 75 |
With Friends Like These | 78 |
Cruelty Irony | 86 |
He Aint Heavy Hes My Brother | 89 |
A Palestinian Gandhi? | 91 |
Part III | 97 |
Back in the Day and Today | 98 |
There Are No Accidents | 101 |
The Politics of Patience | 105 |
The Democratic Revolution | 119 |
The Felt Quality of Autonomy | 121 |
Among the Believers | 125 |
Message from the Grassroots | 128 |
Part IV | 131 |
Stoptime | 133 |
Never Grow Old | 138 |
The City Among Us | 141 |
The Perfect Winter | 147 |
Triumph Over Time | 148 |
Holes in the Argument | 155 |
Part V | 161 |
Majestic Alienation | 164 |
Into Africa | 166 |
A Politics of Experience | 170 |
Tales from Behind the Black Curtain | 181 |
Mandelas Eyes | 185 |
Shout Sister Shout | 188 |
Squeezing Out Sparks | 191 |
Public Intellectual | 197 |
First You Strike | 199 |
Running Buddy | 204 |
Part VI | 211 |
Old Rasputin and Old Milwaukee | 212 |
Death of Edgar Alan Poe in Baltimore Maryland | 214 |
Da EnronRon Hey Da EnronRon | 216 |
You Must Choose | 219 |
The Blueprint | 221 |
Fujiyama Mama | 223 |
she dont like my gospel music | 224 |
The Depths | 225 |
Test Time vs Dreamtime | 265 |
The University as Sweatshop | 268 |
No SellOut | 273 |
Part VIII | 283 |
Real Writing | 284 |
The Saving Right to Reprove | 291 |
Our Man in Hollywood | 295 |
The Soul of a Simulacrum | 299 |
Lost and Looking | 305 |
The Wright Stuff | 314 |
A Winters Tale | 317 |
Time Will Take You Out | 318 |
Back in the Day | 320 |
Nursing Ganesha | 321 |
Puce | 322 |
Man on the Run | 326 |
Who Killed Our Little Shani | 328 |
The God of Rough Places | 330 |
The Hidden Face | 334 |
Part IX | 335 |
Skies Over America | 336 |
Crisis of Meaning | 337 |
Citizen JayZ | 339 |
Waging Peace | 344 |
The War | 348 |
Part X | 355 |
Asian Fantasies | 358 |
The Ballot and the Bullet | 362 |
Rivers of Babylon | 366 |
Reality TV | 367 |
Welcome to the Reality of the Desert | 368 |
An Avuncular No | 370 |
Snow White and the Seven Chumps | 372 |
Into the Breach Again | 376 |
The Root is WomeninNature | 382 |
The Perils of Political Maternalism | 384 |
The Way Old Friends Do | 387 |
Reason and Revolution | 393 |
The Truman Show | 394 |
Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies | 396 |
Now Lie in It | 403 |
Part XI | 405 |
ALL BOY | 416 |
Sisterhood Is Powerful | 417 |
Four Tough Good Byes | 420 |
Lineaments of a Promised Land | 425 |
Expat on Main Street | 429 |
Rainy Night in Europa | 434 |
Geezer Music | 435 |
Part XII | 437 |
Contributors Notes | 445 |
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