Ferguson Kathy E. Ferguson

Letterpress Revolution (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Ferguson shows how printers-whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers-arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the page. Printers' extensive correspondence with fellow anarchists and the radical ideas they published created dynamic and entangled networks that brought the decentralized anarchist movements together. Printers and presses did more than report on the movement; they were constitutive of it, and their vitality in anarchist communities helps explain anarchism's remarkable persistence in the face of continuous harassment, arrest, assault, deportation, and exile. By inquiring into the political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture, Ferguson points to possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023869
• Artikelnr.: 68955034

Autorenporträt

Kathy E. Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at M¿noa and the author of several books, including Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Anarchist Letters  1
1. Printers and Presses  21
2. Epistolarity  83
3. Radical Study  129
4. Intersectionality and Thing Power  185
Appendix A. Compositors, Pressmen, and Bookbinders  215
Appendix B. Brief Biographies  225
Appendix C. Printers Interviewed 231
Notes  233
Letters Referenced  281
Bibliography  287
Index  317