politics and literature

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Nuruddin Farah

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Naruddin Farah.

Gulliver's travels

the politics of satire
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Gulliver's Travels, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Animal farm

pastoralism and politics
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Animal Farm, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Encyclopedia of literature and politics

censorship, revolution, and writing
Contains entries that explore the relationship between literature and politics around the world, from ancient Greece to the early twenty-first century, covering authors, critics, theorists, historical figures, major literary works, national literatures, literary movements, and specific themes, concepts, and genres; arranged alphabetically from S to Z.
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Encyclopedia of literature and politics

censorship, revolution, and writing
Contains entries that explore the relationship between literature and politics around the world, from ancient Greece to the early twenty-first century, covering authors, critics, theorists, historical figures, major literary works, national literatures, literary movements, and specific themes, concepts, and genres; arranged alphabetically from H to R.
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Women poets on the left

Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker
2001
Explores the socially conscious verse of radical women poets and the contributions they made toward the development of political poetry from 1910 to 1945.

Hellman and Hammett

the legendary passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett
1996
Looks at the lives, careers, and relationships of the two writers focusing on their active roles in American literary, political, and social circles and examining their nontraditional yet long-term love affair.

Shadowplay

the hidden beliefs and coded politics of William Shakespeare
2005
Reveals how William Shakespeare used the same common code many sixteenth-century dissident writers used to comment on the state of England in the sixteenth century.

Subversive genealogy

the politics and art of Herman Melville
1983

The Zhivago affair

the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout visited Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Dr. Zhivago. Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But Pasternak thought it stood a chance of being published and read in the West. From Italy it made its way around the world to earn Pasternak the 1958 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Copies were sold in Moscow and Leningrad on the Black Market and when Pasternak died in 1960 in Russia his funeral was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell.

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