June 07, 2020

What Do We Mean By "Protest Literature"?

19 minutes

Richard Wright famously said that "All literature is protest." Although I agree with that statement for a number of reasons, I focus on several specific genres, and discuss prominent examples of protest literature from each.

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Helpful links:

"#PitMad": https://pitchwars.org/pitmad/

"Social Novel": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_novel

"The Enduring Importance of Richard Wright," by Milton Moskowitz: https://www.jbhe.com/features/59_richardwright.html

"The Philosophy of Protest: Thoreau, King, and Civil Disobedience," by Scotty Hendricks: https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/philosophy-civil-disobedience?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

"Common Sense by Thomas Paine": https://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/

"Frederick Douglas – Social Reformer," by Nathaniel Jordan: https://rarega.org/2018/02/10/frederick-douglas-social-reformer/

"West Memphis Three": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three

"Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/101581/poems-of-protest-resistance-and-empowerment

"African American Protest Poetry," by Trudier Harris: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/aaprotestpoetry.htm

"To Live in the Borderlands," by Gloria Anzaldua: https://powerpoetry.org/content/live-borderlands

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