Write. Persist. Struggle: Sponsors of Writing and Workers' Education in the 1930s

Autor/in	Mutnick, Deborah
Titel	Write. Persist. Struggle: Sponsors of Writing and Workers' Education in the 1930s
Quelle	In: Community Literacy Journal, 11 (2016) 1, S.10-21 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1555-9734
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Writing Instruction; Community Programs; Labor Education; Activism; Working Class; Social Systems; Democracy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Schreibunterricht; Labour education; Arbeitserziehung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Arbeiterklasse; Social system; Soziales System; Demokratie
Abstract	Organizations like the John Reed Clubs and the WPA Federal Writers' Project, as well as publications like "The New Masses" can be seen as "literacy sponsors" of the U.S. literary left in the 1930s, particularly the young, the working class, and African American writers. The vibrant, inclusionary, activist, literary culture of that era reflected a surge of revolutionary ideas and activity that seized the imagination of a generation of writers and artists, including rhetoricians like Kenneth Burke. Here I argue that this history has relevance for contemporary community writing projects, which collectively lack the political cohesiveness and power of the national and international movements that sponsored the 1930s literary left but may anticipate another global period of struggle for democracy in which writers and artists can play a significant role. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01