Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers "d0e4942"

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 .

B

Baca, Judith, murals of, 161 , 171

Baker, Ella, 79 , 86

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

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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 ;

defined, 135 , 136 ;

and diversity, 140 ;

and feminism, 137 ;

and New Left, 135 , 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

Decentralization, 14 , 169 ;

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

Dolan, Jill, 139 , 192 n.39

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;

humanism of, 65 , 81 ;

literary ambition of, 64 ;

and New Criticism, 68 , 69 ;

and social protest fiction, 69 ;

and Twain, 61 –62;

and Whitman, 62 ;

and Wright, 68 –69, 81 .

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

Fiske, John, 163 , 164

Flacks, Richard, 165 –66, 175 –76n.18, 176 n.20

Formalism, 5 , 146 –51;

New Criticism, 65

Foucault, Michel, 3 , 143

Frankfurt school, 6

Fraser, Nancy:

on particular/universal dichotomy, 194 n.3;

on public sphere, 176 n.22

Fuss, Diana, 149

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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

Hogue, W. Lawrence, 70 , 84

Homotextuality:

in Invisible Man , 62 ;

in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 182 n.38

Humanism:

liberal, 11 , 65 , 81 , 143 ;

radical, xiii , 13 , 15

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 jazz, 80 , 185 n.35;

and literary canon, 58 , 63 –64, 67 –68, 69 –71, 73 , 76 , 182 n.2, 184 –85n.31;

and Marxism, 184 n.20;

and modernism, 69 , 71 , 85 ;

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;

on postmodernism, 20 , 164 ;

"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

Kruger, Barbara, 162 , 163

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;

silence in, 46 , 180 n.26;

skepticism in, 27 ;

stylistic variety of, 22 , 34 –35, 39 –40;

the subjects of, 28 –30, 32 ;

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

Literariness, 4 , 174 n.6

Livermore Action Group, 120 –21, 189 n.1

Lowell, Robert, as character in Armies of the Night , 104 –5

Luxemburg, Rosa, 103

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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.

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 spectacle, 139 , 186 n.7;

and Women's Pentagon Action(s), 121 , 133

New social movements:

and decentered subject, 150 –51;

defined, 14 –15, 175 n.18;

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

Otherness, 148 –49, 158

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)

Persian Gulf War, 2 , 147

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

Politerature, xii , 142

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;

Harvey on, 153 –54, 195 n.21;

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 ;

Pfeil on, 155 –58, 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;

defined, 18 , 177 n.28;

and feminists of color, 161 ;

as genre, 18 –19, 21 ;

in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 49 ;

as political strategy, 20

Poststructuralism, and rhetorical analysis, 3 . See also Textual criticism

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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:

defined, 12 , 15 ;

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

Reagan, Ronald, 2 , 146

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 ;

the poetics of, 7 , 16 ;

and representation, 145 ;

and theory, 16 , 18 , 146 –51, 170 ;

and the university, 144 –45

Social text, 7 , 146 –51

Spectacle:

defined, 186 n.7;

and New Left, 139 , 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

Theater, radical, 139 , 141 ;

and feminism, 120 , 192 n.39

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

Warhol, Andy, 158 , 162

Warnock, Donna, 127 , 131

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 ,

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Williams, Raymond

152 , 160 ;

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 ;

Second Wave, 121 , 123 .

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;

as event, 120 , 121 ;

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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