First of the Year: 2008Benj DeMott Transaction Publishers, 31 дек. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 463 This is the first in a continuing series of reminders that the past informs the present as it infuses the future. As Benj DeMott notes, the aim of First of the Year is to define "the democratic imperatives and demotic tones that make our ongoing politics of culture matter." This annual publication is grounded in the needs of "dissed" people: disenfranchised, disadvantaged, disinherited, discomfited, and dismissed. But the concept has been sharpened to acknowledge that though the underdog is owed sympathy, the mad dog is owed a bullet. In short, First of the Year is very much an effort of the twenty-first century. The publication aims to be more than a launching pad for writers. It attempts to bridge the gap between radical perspectives without losing focus on the centrality of African-American culture to the national conversation. The coming together of figures like Armond White, Kate Millett, Lorenzo Thomas, Russell Jacoby, Adolph Reed, and Amiri Baraka is quite unlike what can be found in standard literary and social publications. They treat the African-American condition as a policy issue or an executive summary report--not as a touchstone for the state of the nation as a whole. The initial volume also deals extensively and seriously with the issue of humanism and terror, the nature of social movements, electoral and urban politics, and the musical trends of our time. It does so with a sense of urgency often denied in mainstream literary reviews. Issues of "standards" are addressed from the angle of African-American cultural traditions, and the mind-body problem as a matter of race not just of metaphysics. In a nutshell, this volume intends to open a new chapter in the Harlem Renaissance; or better, an American renaissance with a Harlem lilt. First of the Year is an attempt to make political arguments breathe through cultural voices. Contributors include Sheldon Wolin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Berman, Charles Keil, and Philip Levine, among others, ensuring its ability to entertain. |
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Ghazal of Twat | 229 |
What Salvation Must Be Like After a While | 230 |
Part VII | 239 |
History Gets Lost in the Matrix | 240 |
A Mighty Wind | 246 |
Grossmanism | 255 |
Death by Cookie Cutter | 261 |
Test Time vs Dreamtime | 265 |
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Death from Above | 54 |
A Fascinating Fear of Fascism | 55 |
In My Lonely Room | 58 |
Common Cruelty | 63 |
World Body | 64 |
Part II | 67 |
Bliss | 70 |
Before the War | 73 |
Stop Breaking Down | 74 |
Weapons of Criticism Criticism of Weapons | 75 |
With Friends Like These | 78 |
Cruelty Irony | 86 |
He Aint Heavy Hes My Brother | 89 |
A Palestinian Gandhi? | 91 |
Part III | 97 |
Back in the Day and Today | 98 |
There Are No Accidents | 101 |
The Politics of Patience | 105 |
The Democratic Revolution | 119 |
The Felt Quality of Autonomy | 121 |
Among the Believers | 125 |
Message from the Grassroots | 128 |
Part IV | 131 |
Stoptime | 133 |
Never Grow Old | 138 |
The City Among Us | 141 |
The Perfect Winter | 147 |
Triumph Over Time | 148 |
Holes in the Argument | 155 |
Part V | 161 |
Majestic Alienation | 164 |
Into Africa | 166 |
A Politics of Experience | 170 |
Tales from Behind the Black Curtain | 181 |
Mandelas Eyes | 185 |
Shout Sister Shout | 188 |
Squeezing Out Sparks | 191 |
Public Intellectual | 197 |
First You Strike | 199 |
Running Buddy | 204 |
Part VI | 211 |
Old Rasputin and Old Milwaukee | 212 |
Death of Edgar Alan Poe in Baltimore Maryland | 214 |
Da EnronRon Hey Da EnronRon | 216 |
You Must Choose | 219 |
The Blueprint | 221 |
Fujiyama Mama | 223 |
she dont like my gospel music | 224 |
The Depths | 225 |
Head of State | 226 |
The University as Sweatshop | 268 |
No SellOut | 273 |
Part VIII | 283 |
Real Writing | 284 |
The Saving Right to Reprove | 291 |
Our Man in Hollywood | 295 |
The Soul of a Simulacrum | 299 |
Lost and Looking | 305 |
The Wright Stuff | 314 |
A Winters Tale | 317 |
Time Will Take You Out | 318 |
Back in the Day | 320 |
Nursing Ganesha | 321 |
Puce | 322 |
Man on the Run | 326 |
Who Killed Our Little Shani | 328 |
The God of Rough Places | 330 |
The Hidden Face | 334 |
Part IX | 335 |
Skies Over America | 336 |
Crisis of Meaning | 337 |
Citizen JayZ | 339 |
Waging Peace | 344 |
The War | 348 |
Part X | 355 |
Asian Fantasies | 358 |
The Ballot and the Bullet | 362 |
Rivers of Babylon | 366 |
Reality TV | 367 |
Welcome to the Reality of the Desert | 368 |
An Avuncular No | 370 |
Snow White and the Seven Chumps | 372 |
Into the Breach Again | 376 |
The Root is WomeninNature | 382 |
The Perils of Political Maternalism | 384 |
The Way Old Friends Do | 387 |
Reason and Revolution | 393 |
The Truman Show | 394 |
Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies | 396 |
Now Lie in It | 403 |
Part XI | 405 |
ALL BOY | 416 |
Sisterhood Is Powerful | 417 |
Four Tough Good Byes | 420 |
Lineaments of a Promised Land | 425 |
Expat on Main Street | 429 |
Rainy Night in Europa | 434 |
Geezer Music | 435 |
Part XII | 437 |
Contributors Notes | 445 |
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Стр. 123 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee." Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
Стр. 123 - The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; 15 for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever.
Стр. 61 - The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.
Стр. 61 - I will not wait on events, while dangers gather I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer.
Стр. 26 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Стр. 123 - That is God talking. The Bible says that Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar before the Lord. Hebron is in the West Bank. It is at this place where God appeared to Abram and said, "I am giving you this land,
Стр. 26 - Who is the man who desires life. And loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit, Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.
Стр. 89 - We are concerned that this individualism may have grown cancerous — that it may be destroying those social integuments that Tocqueville saw as moderating its more destructive potentialities, that it may be threatening the survival of freedom itself.
Стр. 25 - I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe there is now a chance for peace, a great chance...
Стр. 123 - This is the most important reason: Because God said so. As I said a minute ago, look it up in the book of Genesis. It is right up there on the desk. In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says: The Lord said to Abram, "Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward and westward: for...