EAN: 9780262047807

POLITICALLY RED - EDUARDO CADAVA SARA NADAL-MEL...

How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy  and why the struggle for
change must begin at the level of the sentence.   “Reading is class struggle ” writes Bertolt
Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by
exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative
readings of Karl Marx  Rosa Luxemburg  Walter Benjamin  W. E. B. Du Bois  Fredric Jameson  and
others  it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and  in doing so  suggests
that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality 
racism  and fascism. Reading between the lines  as it were  and even behind them  Cadava and
Nadal-Melsió engage in an inventive mode of activist writing to argue that reading and writing
are never solitary tasks  but always collaborative and collective  and able to revitalize our
shared political imagination. Drawing on what they call a “red common-wealth”—an archive of
vast resources for doing political work and  in particular  anti-racist work—they demonstrate
that sentences  as dynamic repositories of social relations  are historical and political
events.

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