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The introduction places the contributors' essays in the context of protest movements (such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo) and recent scholarly debates about surface reading, post-critique, and weak theory. The literary Left relies on particular generic features—often featuring a manifesto or declaration, cosignatories and signal-boosters, and skeptics and trolls—that repay attention to expressive form as well as political content. In contrast to genres that rely on closure, writing of the Left thrives when arguments spill from page to page, text to text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
