Index
A
Adorno, Theodor, 56
Aesthetics:
in Armies of the Night , 108 –9, 114 –16, 188 n.25;
and ideology, 5 –7;
in Invisible Man , 58 –60;
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 31 , 45 –47;
and reading formations, 6
Affinity groups, in Women's Pentagon Action(s), 135 , 138
Agee, James:
as character in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 52 , 53 –54;
and Evans, as collaborators, 180 –81n.29;
relationship with tenant families, 31 , 46 –47, 51 –52, 54 ;
style contrasted to Evans, 32 .
See also Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Anzaldúa, Gloria:
Borderlands/La Frontera , 161
Armies of the Night (Mailer):
and American rites of passage, 111 –12;
counterculture analyzed in, 105 –7;
as critique of mass media, 90 , 93 , 94 , 101 –3;
and Education of Henry Adams , 89 , 95 , 103 –4, 187 n.11;
and epic tradition, 98 –100, 112 ;
as historiography, 90 , 92 –99, 109 –10, 112 , 113 , 187 n.12;
as journalism, 88 , 90 , 101 ;
and legitimation crisis, 185 –86n.2;
Lowell as character in, 104 –5;
and New Left aesthetic, 92 , 108 –9, 114 –16, 188 n.25;
as novel, 89 –90, 92 –99, 109 –10, 113 , 187 n.12;
Old Left critiqued in, 115 , 116 ;
as phenomenology, 186 –87n.8;
postmodernist readings of, 88 –89;
as postmodernist realism, 88 ;
publishing history of, 187 n.9;
realist readings of, 88 –89;
strategy of, 89 –94;
and surrealism, 102 –3, 187 –88n.19.
See also Mailer, Norman
Artaud, Antonin, dramatic theory of, 139 , 193 n.52
Articulation, 7 , 20 , 175 n.17, 177 n.27
Avant-garde:
cooptation by mass media, 19 –20, 162 –65;
limitations of, 147 , 163 , 166 , 169 ;
as model for poststructuralist criticism, 3 ;
modernist left version of, 162 ;
and political strategies, 147 ;
versus popular culture, 162 –65
B
Baca, Judith, murals of, 161 , 171
Bambara, Toni Cade:
The Salt Eaters , 161
Baudrillard, Jean, 158 , 162 , 164 , 177 n.29, 187 –88n.19, 194 n.9
Beggs, Donald, 136
Benjamin, Walter, 22 , 100 , 178 n.3
Berthoff, Warner, 95
Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 8 , 156
Black Aesthetic, and Invisible Man , 59 , 64 , 82 –83, 183 n.11
Black nationalism, and Invisible Man , 64 –67
Black Power movement, and Invisible Man , 60 , 64 , 66 , 80
Boyte, Harry, and Sara Evans, 167 –68, 197 –98n.59
Brecht, Bertolt:
as avant-garde, 162 ;
dramatic theory of, 133 , 138 –39, 191 n.24;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 129
Breines, Wini:
on New Left memoirists, 118 ;
on "prefigurative politics" of New Left, 117 –19
C
Civil disobedience:
in Armies of the Night , 94 –96;
in Women's Pentagon Action(s), 125 , 132 , 135 , 138
Civil Rights movement:
and consensus process, 135 ;
and Invisible Man , 60 , 78 –80;
and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 55 –56;
and new populism, 167
Consciousness-raising:
debate over, 123 –24, 190 –91n.12;
and essentialism, 123 –24;
and Second Wave women's movement, 123 –24;
and social movement politics, 140 ;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 123 –24, 125 , 126 , 128 , 132 –33, 135
Consensus process:
and Civil Rights movement, 135 ;
and diversity, 140 ;
and feminism, 137 ;
and SNCC, 137 ;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 135 , 136 –38
Counterculture, hippie:
and New Left Pentagon siege, 105 –7
Cultural Studies:
defined, 8 ;
and literary theory, 9 –10;
British version of, 8 ;
and rhetorical criticism, 9 –13;
and social movements, 8 –9;
in the U.S., 8 –9;
and the university, 8
Cyborgs, as theorized by Haraway, 159 –61
D
Dada, as avant-garde, 19 , 162
Debray, Regis:
Revolution in Revolution? , 188 n.25
repressive version of, 197 n.56
Dellinger, David, on Pentagon march strategy, 91 –92
de Man, Paul, and the indeterminacy of rhetoric, 11
Democracy, radical. See Radical democracy
Derrida, Jacques, 3 , 23 , 158 , 177 n.30, 194 –95n.11
di Leonardo, Micaela, on Moral Mother symbolism, 129 –30
Documentary:
critique of in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 27 , 36 –37, 178 n. 8;
photographic tradition in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 47 –49
Double vision, in Invisible Man , 59 –60, 61 –67, 72 –73, 74 –84, 86 , 183 n.6
Duchamp, Marcel, 2
E
Eagleton, Terry, on literary/nonliterary language, 4
Ecofeminism, 121 , 126 , 130 , 140 , 189 n.4
Ellison, Ralph:
and black aesthetic critics, 59 , 182 n.3;
and Communist party, 68 –69;
as critic, 59 , 61 , 65 , 67 , 68 ;
and Emerson, 62 –63;
literary ambition of, 64 ;
and social protest fiction, 69 ;
and Twain, 61 –62;
and Whitman, 62 ;
See also Invisible Man
Essentialism, 149 –50;
and consciousness-raising, 123 –24;
defined, 149 ;
recent books on, 190 n.9;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 122 , 123 –124
Evans, Sara, and Harry Boyte, 167 –68, 197 –98n.59
Evans, Walker:
aesthetic allusions of, 47 –48;
and Agee, as collaborators, 180 –81n.29;
and documentary tradition, 180 –81n.29;
and Heidegger, 47 ;
photographic style of, 31 –32, 47 –48, 52 –53, 180 n.28, 180 –81n.29.
See also Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
F
Felski, Rita:
on literary/nonliterary language, 4 ;
on public sphere, 176 n.22, 198 n.60
Feminism:
and consensus process, 137 ;
and New Left, 121 –22;
and literary criticism, 151 ;
and postmodernism, 158 –61;
and radical theater, 120 ;
and social movement politics, 140 ;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 125 –26, 140 .
See also Ecofeminism; Women's Movement
Feminist process. See Consensus process
Fish, Stanley, 174 n.13
Flacks, Richard, 165 –66, 175 –76n.18, 176 n.20
New Criticism, 65
Frankfurt school, 6
Fraser, Nancy:
on particular/universal dichotomy, 194 n.3;
on public sphere, 176 n.22
Fuss, Diana, 149
G
Genre:
ambiguities of, 177 n.30;
postmodernist realism as, 18 –19
H
Haacke, Hans, 162
Habermas, Jürgen, 175 n.14, 193 n.45;
and communication, 136 , 193 n.49;
contrasted to Lyotard, 13 ;
and instrumental rationality, 99 ;
on public sphere, 176 n.22;
and "universal pragmatics," 13
Hall, Stuart, 1 , 154 , 177 n.27
Haraway, Donna:
"Cyborg Manifesto," 159 –61
Harvey, David:
on local/global strategies, 168 ;
on postmodernity, 153 –54, 195 n.21
Heidegger, Martin, and Evans, 47
Hip-hop, 164 –65
Hoffman, Abbie, 100 –1, 107 , 108 , 187 –88n.19
Homotextuality:
in Invisible Man , 62 ;
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 182 n.38
Humanism:
I
Intellectuals:
literary, 9 , 142 , 143 , 170 ;
"specific" versus "universal," 143 –44
Invisible Man (Ellison):
allusive strategy of, 61 –67, 85 ;
and "anxiety of affluence," 71 –72;
and "anxiety of influence," 67 –69;
and autobiography, 70 –71, 85 ;
and Black Aesthetic, 59 , 64 , 183 n.11;
and black liberation strategies, 58 –60, 63 , 64 –67, 73 –84, 85 –86;
and black nationalism, 64 –67, 82 –83;
and Black Power movement, 60 , 66 , 80 ;
and Civil Rights movement, 60 , 78 –80;
and Communist party, 81 ;
critical reception of, 58 , 182 n.3;
double vision in, 59 –60, 61 –67, 72 –73, 74 –84, 86 , 183 n.6;
and folklore, 66 –67, 72 –73, 77 –78, 85 , 183 –84n.16;
homotextuality in, 62 ;
and integrationism, 63 , 64 –67;
and literary canon, 58 , 63 –64, 67 –68, 69 –71, 73 , 76 , 182 n.2, 184 –85n.31;
and Marxism, 184 n.20;
multiculturalism in, 66 ;
and naturalism, 68 , 69 –70, 71 , 73 ;
and New Criticism, 65 ;
and psychoanalysis, 62 ;
radical democracy in, 85 ;
rhetorical strategies in, 59 –60, 73 –84, 86 ;
sexuality in, 75 –77;
trickster politics in, 59 –60, 73 –74, 84 –86
See also Ellison, Ralph
J
Jameson, Fredric:
contrasted to Pfeil, 155 –58;
and false populism, 170 –71;
on literature as symbolic action, 5 ;
"Periodizing the Sixties," 113 , 188 n.24;
"Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," 151 –55, 195 n.20
Jay, Gregory, on rhetorical criticism, 7
K
Kafka, Franz, 37
King, Martin Luther, 79 –80, 165
King, Ynestra, 122 , 123 , 134
L
Laclau, Ernesto, and Chantal Mouffe, on radical democracy, 175 n. 17
Lefebvre, Henri, 187 –88n.19
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Evans):
aesthetic allusions in, 35 , 41 –42, 179 –80n.24;
aesthetics in, 45 –47;
as allegory, 22 –23;
authorial strategy and democracy in, 56 ;
book concept in, 30 –32, 50 –56;
characterization in, 43 –45;
and Civil Rights movement, 55 –56;
connection between prose and photography in, 31 , 39 , 179 n.19;
critical reception of, 55 –56;
cross-mediation in, 39 ;
cubist sociology in, 35 , 38 , 42 , 44 ;
detail in, 178 n. 12;
and documentary tradition, 27 , 36 –37, 47 –49, 178 n.8;
the general and particular in, 35 –36;
homotextuality in, 182 n.38;
mediation as subject of, 32 ;
modernism in, 50 ;
phenomenology in, 36 , 179 n.21;
photographic style of, 180 n.28;
as postmodernist realism, 23 –24, 49 ;
as prepolitical text, 26 ;
publishing history of, 26 , 28 , 180 n.27;
and racism, 181 –82n.37;
reader roles in, 25 , 30 –32, 39 , 41 , 43 , 50 –52, 55 –56;
and realism, naturalism, 23 –24, 28 , 32 –35, 50 ;
representation, critique of, 22 –23, 24 , 26 –30, 32 –35, 42 –47, 49 , 55 –56;
skepticism in, 27 ;
stylistic variety of, 22 , 34 –35, 39 –40;
surrealism in, 38 ;
tenants as readers of, 181 n.35;
themes of, 24 –26.
See also Agee, James; Evans, Walker
Linton, Rhoda, 127 –28, 131 –32
Livermore Action Group, 120 –21, 189 n.1
Lowell, Robert, as character in Armies of the Night , 104 –5
Luxemburg, Rosa, 103
Lyotard, Jean-François, 158 ;
contrasted to Habermas, 13 ;
and "language games," 13
M
Mailer, Norman:
as character in Armies of the Night , 88 –89, 90 , 95 –97, 99 –100, 104 ;
committing civil disobedience, 94 –96;
as "Left Conservative," 103 –4;
and Lowell, 104 –5;
New Left defined by, 186 n.5;
as participant in New Left Pentagon demon strations, 89 , 94 –97, 101 , 107 –8.
See also Armies of the Night
Marcuse, Herbert, and repressive desublimation, 19
and Invisible Man , 184 n.20;
and radical democracy, 176 n.20
Melucci, Alberto, on new social movements, 14
Militarism, and feminism, 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 –30, 133 , 138 , 140
Minh-ha, Trinh T., 161
Moraga, Cherríe:
Loving in the War Years , 161
Moral Mother symbolism, 129 –30, 192 n.30
Morris, Meaghan, 158 , 196 n.34
Multiculturalism, 148 ;
in Invisible Man , 66
N
New Left:
"action faction" in, 115 –17;
aesthetic of, 108 –9, 114 –16, 188 n.25;
and consensus process, 135 , 137 ;
and cultural change, 166 ;
as defined by Mailer, 186 n.5;
and feminism, 121 –22;
histories of, 188 n.28;
limitations of, 112 –13, 115 –17, 132 , 166 –68;
and the media, 90 ;
and Pentagon siege, 87 –88, 91 –92, 103 , 107 –8, 113 –14, 185 –86n.2;
and prefigurative politics, 117 –18;
and professionalmanagerial class, 157 ;
recent books about, 117 –18, 188 n.26, 188 –89n.29;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 121 , 133
New social movements:
and decentered subject, 150 –51;
and literary theory, xi –xii, 14 , 145 –46;
Melucci on, 14 ;
and postmodernism, 161 ;
and professional-managerial class, 157 ;
and representation, 132 ;
Ryan on, 16 –17;
theories of, 132 .
See also Social movements
Newton, Judith, 13
O
Old Left, 91 ;
critiqued in Armies of the Night , 115 , 116
Oppositional consciousness, Sandoval on, 150
Owens, Craig, 158
P
Pentagon, New Left siege of, 87 –88, 91 –92, 99 –100, 103 , 107 –8, 113 –14, 185 –86n.2;
as critique of mass media, 92 ;
and hippie counterculture, 105 –7.
See also Women's Pentagon Action(s)
Pfeil, Fred:
contrasted to Jameson, 155 –58;
on high versus popular culture, 161 –62;
"Makin' Flippy-Floppy: Postmodernism and the Baby Boom PMC," 155 –58
Phenomenology:
in Armies of the Night , 186 –87n.8;
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 36 , 179 n.21
Popular Culture:
versus avant-garde, 162 –65;
and "high culture," 161 –62, 170 ;
politics of, 161 –65, 196 n.39, 197 n.46;
and populism, 170 –71;
and theory, 9
Populism, 165 –71;
and Civil Rights movement, 167 ;
contemporary "new populism," 166 –71;
Evans and Boyte on, 167 –68, 197 –98n.59;
and "new federalism," 168 –69;
limits of, 167 –69;
and popular culture, 170 –71;
varieties of, 167 , 169 , 197 n.50
Post-Fordism, 113
Post-Marxism, 176 n.20, 195 n.16
Postmodernism, postmodernity, 142 –71, 194 –95n.11;
and Armies of the Night , 88 –89;
challenged by postmodernist realism, 20 –21;
and feminism, 158 –61;
as genre, 177 n.30;
Haraway on, 158 –61;
Jameson on, 20 , 151 –55, 164 , 195 n.20;
negative elements of, 151 –55, 158 ;
and new social movements, 161 ;
oppositional elements of, 154 , 161 ;
and radical democracy, 145 ;
West on, 148 –49
Postmodernist realism, 18 –21, 162 ;
and Armies of the Night , 88 ;
as challenge to postmodernism, 20 –21;
and feminists of color, 161 ;
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 49 ;
as political strategy, 20
Poststructuralism, and rhetorical analysis, 3 . See also Textual criticism
Prefigurative politics, and New Left, 117 –18
Professional-managerial class (PMC), 155 –57;
defined, 155 –56;
and the mass media, 156 , 157 ;
and New Left, 157 ;
and new social movements, 157
Public sphere, 176 n.22
R
Radical criticism, and formalism, 6
Radical democracy:
and collapse of Cold War, 16 ;
and contestation of meaning, 12 ;
and counterhegemony, 15 –16;
and cultural change, 166 ;
in Invisible Man , 85 ;
Laclau and Mouffe on, 175 n.17;
and liberalism, 11 ;
and Marxism, 176 n.20;
postmodern version of, 15 , 145 ;
and rhetorical criticism, 11 –12;
tradition of, 15
Radical theater. See Theater, radical
Radway, Janice:
on ethics and political criticism, 17 –18;
and popular audiences, 144
Rap music, 164 –65
Reader response, 4 –6, 10 , 174 n.12;
to Invisible Man , 73 –84;
to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 25 , 30 –32, 39 , 41 , 43 , 50 –52, 55 –56, 181 n.35;
and "reading formations," 10 , 174 n.12
Realism:
and Armies of the Night , 102 , 112 ;
continuing influence of, 20 ;
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 28 , 32 –35, 50.
See also Postmodernist realism
Representation:
aesthetic and political dimensions of, 22 –24, 27 , 45 –47, 147 –48;
critique of, 22 –23, 24 , 26 –30, 32 –35, 42 –47, 49 , 55 –56;
paradox of, 23 ;
political, 147 –48;
and social movements, 14 , 132 , 145
Rhetorical criticism:
and cultural studies, 8 , 9 –13;
and formalism, 5 ;
Jay on, 7 ;
the limits of, 11 –12;
and poststructuralism, 3 ;
and radical ideology, 11 –13;
rebirth of, 3 ;
recent works on, 174 nn.5, 12 ;
and the relation of text and reader, 5 –6;
and social power, 10 ;
and social text, 7 .
See also Textual criticism
Ricouer, Paul, 91 , 186 –87n.8
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 36
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 22 , 49
Rosenfelt, Deborah, 13
Rosler, Martha, on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 180 –81n.29
Ross, Andrew, 197 n.47
Rubin, Jerry, 99
Ryan, Michael, 16 –17
S
Said, Edward, 22 ;
and popular audiences, 144
Sandoval, Chela, 161 , 195 n.15;
"oppositional consciousness," 150
Social movements:
consciousness-raising and politics of, 140 ;
and cultural studies, 8 ;
flux in, 17 ;
interpretation of, 17 ;
and representation, 145 ;
and theory, 16 , 18 , 146 –51, 170 ;
and the university, 144 –45
Spectacle:
defined, 186 n.7;
and "spectacularization," 131 ;
and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 131 , 139
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 21
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and consensus process, 137
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 116 –17, 118 , 133 , 188 n.28
Sturgeon, Noël, 138 , 191 n.21
Subject, decentered, 149 –51
Surrealism:
and Armies of the Night , 102 –3;
as avant-garde movement, 19 , 162 ;
in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 38
T
Textual criticism, 3 , 5 –8, 146 –51, 175 n.17. See also Rhetorical criticism
Theory:
literary/cultural, 1 –11, 142 –71, 173 n.1;
and practice in Women's Pentagon Action(s), 140 ;
and social movements, xi –xii, 2 , 18 , 145 –51, 170 ;
theatrical, 120 , 121 , 123 , 126 –32, 133 –34, 135 , 138 –41, 162 , 191 n.24;
and the university, 145 –46
Todorov, Tzvetan, 4 , 177 n.30
Trickster politics:
in Invisible Man , 59 –60, 73 –74, 84 , 85 , 86
U
University, the:
and cultural studies, 8 ;
and social movements, 144 –45;
and theory, 145 –46
V
Van Gogh, Vincent:
Les Souliers , 47
W
West, Cornel:
and popular audiences, 144 ;
and questions of "Otherness," 148 –49
Whitham, Michel, 131 –32
Williams, Raymond:
on fact and fiction, 32 ;
on "residual" cultural forces, 20 ,
Williams, Raymond
and "structures of feeling," 127
Women's Movement:
and consciousness-raising, 123 –24, 133 , 135 , 140 , 190 –91n.12;
and militarism, 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 –30, 133 , 138 , 140 ;
and New Left, 121 ;
See also Feminism
Women's Pentagon Action(s) (WPA):
affinity groups in, 135 , 138 ;
and antimilitarism, 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 –30, 133 , 138 , 140 ;
civil disobedience in, 125 , 132 , 135 , 138 ;
consciousness-raising in, 123 –24, 125 , 126 , 128 , 132 –33, 135 ;
consensus process in, 135 , 136 –38;
continuing influence of, 189 n.3;
dramatic strategies of, 123 , 126 –32, 133 –34, 135 , 138 ;
and dramatic theory, 121 , 133 , 138 –41;
and ecofeminism, 126 , 130 –31, 140 ;
and essentialism, 122 , 123 –24;
feminisms of, 125 –26, 127 , 129 –30, 140 , 189 n.4;
and mass media, 134 ;
"Moral Mother" debate in, 129 –31;
and New Left dramatics, 133 ;
organizing strategies of, 124 –26;
and rhetorical strategies, 122 –23;
social movements in, 124 –26;
and spectacle, 131 , 133 –34, 139 ;
as text, 123 ;
and tradition of protest, 189 nn. 2, 3;
and transgression, 134 , 138 , 192 n.39;
"Unity Statement" of, 125 –26, 130 , 131
Z
Zavarzadeh, Mas'ud, on Armies of the Night , 88 –89
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