First of the Year: 2009 (eBook, ePUB)

Volume II
Redaktion: Demott, Benj

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the second volume in the First of the Year Series. Contributors like Armond White, Philip Levine, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn, Irving Louis Horowitz, Charles O'Brien, Fredric Smoler, Paul Berman, and Amiri Baraka are back (and blazing). And there are important new voices in the First mix, such as Vincent Harding, Roxane Johnson, and Bob Levin. If there is a leitmotif to this edition, it is the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president. First aims to be up to the minute of this moment.

As Benj DeMott notes "a glance at this volume confirms the margin is still the center for us." And that margin stretches from Harlem to the world. There are tales of edgy sojourns in Afghanistan, Thailand, and South Africa. The volume also has a Question & Answer with Ousmane Sembi, who taught Africans to resist "elements of received culture-those fixed rules and values which nobody but those on the margins dare to question." A second interview with Adam Hochschild celebrates the Englishman who invented abolition, and an African-American original who coined the phrase "crimes against humanity."

The volume includes a protest against the Israeli war machine by Uri Avnery who has long been a creative outsider in his own society. It makes the case that American ideologues (on both extremes) keep getting the Middle East wrong because they cannot grasp the complexities of any country, including their own. First of the Year's minority angles of vision will help readers see with new eyes. It will help their hearing too. The volume has plenty of music writing marked by loving attention to details of pop performances. In short, this collection reflects its editor; direct, unafraid, urban, and entirely contemporary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 307
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351519724
• Artikelnr.: 49042730

Autorenporträt

Benj DeMott

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Home Is Where We Start Dennis Myers
Winter Light Irving Louis Horowitz
A Child's Vision of the Great Depression Roxane Beth Johnson
The Prose of the World Tom DeMott
Manilow or Monk Judy Oppenheimer
Showing Out Mark Rudd
"Something About Compassion" Benj DeMott
Between Two Smiles Uri Avnery
The Boss Has Gone Mad Paul Berman
Rational Exuberance Fredric Smoler
Two Nations Mike Rose
Everyday People in Never-Never Land Natalie Estrellita
Anguish As A Second Language Natalie Estrellita
Touch Me Alison Stone
The Lovers Bongani Madondo
Makeba in Memoriam Ben Kessler
R. Kelly's Political Gift Armond White
Springsteen's Magic Realism David Golding
God Stretch America: James Baldwin & Barack Obama Benjamin DeMott
The Uses of James Baldwin Samba Gadjigo
"All Sweat": Ousmane Sembene on Art/Life First of the Month
Radical History Channel I Had a Dream
Joe Richey 96 Judy Oppenheimer
Tight Connection 101 Part II: First Draft of History II Amiri Baraka
You Gotta Move Wesley Hogan
Warm Regards & Power Chords Ty Geltmaker
My February Epiphany Benj DeMott
Cross the Border, Close the Gap Ben Kessler
Stuff White People Like Judy Oppenheimer
Orpheus Descending Stephan Talty
Buffalo's Black and White Ball Mike Rose
School's Out for the G.O.P. Judy Oppenheimer
Feelings Wesley Hogan & Dirk Philipsen
Notes from the State of Virginia Amiri Baraka
American Junkies Scott Spencer
American Socialism 2.0 Benj DeMott
If Buddy Met Poppy Dennis Myers
Apocalypse Wow! Fredric Smoler
Reality Check Donna Gaines
America Alcoholica Natalie Estrellita
Presidential Hair Tom Smucker
Calvin and The Rapture Donna Gaines
Living Sober Amiri Baraka
We Are Already In The Future! Lawrence Goodwyn
The Ground We Stand On Part III: Guided Trips Charles O'Brien
At Ease in Azania Bongani Madondo
South to a Very Old Place Michael Lydon
A House of Books Benj DeMott
The Uses of Benjamin DeMott Fredric Smoler
Against the Current Charles O'Brien
To Criticize the Critic Bob Levin
How I Became a Writer (Pt. 1) Philip Levine
Shadow Boxing Peter Lamborn Wilson
My Summer Vacation in Afghanistan Nat Finkelstein
Kandahar 1971 Michael L. Schmicker
Hem, Maugham and Me Bruce Jackson
David's Choice Bob Levin
Pariah-Time Armond White
Genius
Not! Vincent G. Harding
Midwiving a New America Part IV: Last Call & Response Charles O'Brien
Where Hope Ends Richard Torres
Witness Contributors' Notes