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French literature --- Literary manifestos. --- Literature and state --- History and criticism

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For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the defining forms of aesthetic modernism. Ranging from the pamphlet wars of seventeenth-century England to dyke and ACT-UP manifestoes of the 1990s, her extraordinarily accomplished book offers the first extended treatment of this influential form of discourse. Lyon demonstrates that the manifesto, usually perceived as the very model of rhetorical transparency, is in fact a complex, ideologically inflected genre-one that has helped to shape modern consciousness. Lyon explores the development of the genre during periods of profound historical crisis. The French Revolution generated broadsides that became templates for the texts of Chartism, the Commune, and late-nineteenth-century anarchism, while in the twentieth century the historical avant-garde embraced a revolutionary discourse that sought in the manifesto's polarizing polemics a means for disaggregating and publicizing radical artistic movements. More recently, in the manifestoes of the 1960s, the wretched of the earth called for either the full realization or the final rejection of the idea of the universal subject, paving the way for contemporary contestations of identity among second- and third-wave feminists and queer activists.

Modernism (Literature). --- Feminism and literature. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics). --- Politics and literature. --- Literary manifestos. --- Revolutionary literature --- History and criticism.

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The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas, cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This 2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by writers from the imperial metropolis and the colonial 'periphery' drew very different emphases in their recasting of histories and experiences of modernity. Laura Winkiel examines archival materials as well as canonical texts to analyse how Sylvia Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Wyndham Lewis, Nancy Cunard, C. L. R. James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Aimé Césaire and others presented their modernist projects. This focus on manifestos in their geographical and historical context allows for a revision of modernism that emphasizes its cross-cultural aspects.

Literary manifestos. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Artists' writings --- Historical criticism (Literature) --- Literary manifestos --- Modernism (Art) --- Polemics. --- Propaganda --- Public opinion --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Literary manifestoes --- Manifestoes, Literary --- Manifestos, Literary --- Criticism --- Literature and history --- Artists' literary writings --- Writings of artists --- Arts and Humanities

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Political science --- Political manifestoes. --- Political philosophy --- Manifestoes, Political --- Manifestos, Political --- Political manifestoes --- Communication in politics --- Philosophy. --- Performing arts --- Performance --- Literary manifestos. --- Competence --- Work --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Literary manifestoes --- Manifestoes, Literary --- Manifestos, Literary --- Literature --- Political aspects.