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In literary studies, resistance literature is one subfield in which to study literary output that may be understood as a socio-political activity to resist dominant ideologies. [15] Resistance literature can be used to resist gender-based oppression, or to demonstrate difficulties in liberation struggles or writing in exile.
Slam poetry is a type of "political complaint" and protest that uses identity and other forms to protest oppression. [14] Slam poets and audiences see slam poetry not only as literary or performative, but also as a political event.
Committed literature (French: littérature engagée) can be defined as an approach of an author, poet, novelist, playwright or composer who commits their work to defend or assert an ethical, political, social, ideological or religious view, most often through their works but also can loosely be defined as being through their direct intervention as an "intellectual", in public affairs (Crowly ...
An inspiration for many of his poems was the difficult atmosphere of the wall-divided Berlin where he resided. Petropoulos had come to believe that poetry centered on love and desire was too gentle for modern literature – that it was time for an anti-poetry incorporating anti-sentimental feelings. [5]
Literary activism is a form of protest and critique aimed at corporate publishing houses and the literary fiction/nonfiction that they publish. The progenitors of literary activism are the members of the Underground Literary Alliance .
In wartime, we need literary minds to light the way, writes Ilene Prusher, who says those who have jumped on the anti-Israeli boycott bandwagon by targeting literary and cultural voices are ...
Scholar Kathy M. Essick calls most of the poems in Diiie Angelou's "protest poems". [47] The poems in the second section of Diiie, for example, are militant in tone; according to Hagen, the poems in this section have "more bite" [36] than the ones in the first section and express the experience of being Black in a white-dominated world. DeGout ...
American modernist literature was a dominant trend in American literature between World War I and World War II. The modernist era highlighted innovation in the form and language of poetry and prose, as well as addressing numerous contemporary topics, such as race relations, gender and the human condition.