{"product_id":"the-political-uses-of-literature-global-perspectives-and-theoretical-approaches-1920-2020-paperback","title":"The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Kohlmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIvana Perica\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe question of literature's 'uses' has recently become a key topic of academic and public debate. Paradoxically, however, these conversations often tend to bypass the rich history of engagements with literature's distinctly \u003ci\u003epolitical\u003c\/i\u003e uses that form such a powerful current of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production and critical-theoretical reflection. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Political Uses of Literature\u003c\/i\u003ereopens discussion of literature's political and activist genealogies along several interrelated lines: As a foundational moment, it draws attention to the important body of interwar politicized literature and to debates about literature's ability to intervene in social reality. It then traces the mobilization of related conversations and artistic practices across several historical conjunctures, most notably the committed literature of the 1960s and our own present. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In mapping out these geographically and artistically diverse traditions - including case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Russia - contributors advance critical discussions in the field, making questions pertaining to politicized art newly compelling to a broader and more diverse readership. Most importantly, this volume insists on the need to think about literature's political uses today - at a time when it has become increasingly difficult to imagine any kind of political efficacy for art, even as the need to do so is growing more and more acute. Literature may not proffer easy answers to our political problems, but as this collection suggests, the writing of the 20th century holds out aesthetic resources for a renewed engagement with the dilemmas that face us now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Kohlmann\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Regensburg University, Germany, and author of \u003ci\u003eCommitted Styles: Modernism Politics and Left-Wing Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eBritish Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). His co-edited volumes include \u003ci\u003eA History of 1930s British Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2019; \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvana Perica\u003c\/b\u003e is Marie Jahoda Scholar at the University of Vienna, Austria, and author of \u003ci\u003eDie privat-öffentliche Achse des Politischen: Das Unvernehmen zwischen Hannah Arendt und Jacques Rancière \u003c\/i\u003e(2016).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45516513738854,"sku":"9781501399299","price":81.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/LLVC5wLp_i9781501399299.webp?v=1776408410","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-political-uses-of-literature-global-perspectives-and-theoretical-approaches-1920-2020-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}