Jesse CohnUnderground Passages
Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011
Jesse Cohn, an American literary/cultural scholar and translator, is one of the founding members of the North American Anarchist Studies Network and the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics (Susquehanna University Press, 2006). While teaching as an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University North Central in Indiana, he has translated works by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Gustav Landauer, and Daniel Colson. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Part I Resistance and Culture
Introduction
The Reader in the Factory
Part II Speaking to Others: Anarchist Poetry, Song, and Public Voice
1: The Poet's Feet
2: The Devil's Best Tunes
3: Two Crises of Language
4: "A Need Without A Hope"
5: Fight or Flight?
Part III "Out of the Bind of the Eternal Present": Anarchist Narrative
1: White Rooms
2: Varieties of Estrangement
3: Outcast Narratives
4: From Cretinolândia to Common-Sense Country
5: Stronger Loving Worlds
6: From Terre Libre to Temps de Crises
7: Barbarizing Visions
8: A Social Spectacle?
9: The Mirror Stage
Part IV Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Images
1: Virile Bodies
2: "He Peddles Signs": Words and Images
3: "Evolution Is Not Over Yet": Visual Narrative
4: The Stuttering Image: Anarchist Cinema
Conclusion: Lines of flight
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