What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World (Hardcover)

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Critical Realism; Amy Schrager Lang and Cecelia Tichi; A Short World History of ""Seattle"": 1994-2005; Body Count/Bodies Count; 1. Working-Class Actuality: ""The Great Unexamined""; Janet Zandy; 2. Crane and the Body Count; Cindy Weinstein; 3. Why Set a Free Man Free? Mark Twain, Empire and Gender; Amy Kaplan. 4. Welcoming the Unbidden: The Case for Human Biodiversity Rosemarie Garland Thomson; 5. Consumer Compassion: The ""Face"" of Global AIDS Roger Hallas Experiments in Reality; 7. ""There is evil in the world an I'm going to do something about it"": William Faulkner as Political Resource Joseph R. Urgo; 8. Rhetoric, Politics, and Ethics in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo James Phelan; 9. Fear and Loathing in Globalization Fredric Jameson; 10. Hawthorne and Class Teresa Goddu; 11. Experiments in Reality: Wycoff's Workers Jonathan Prude The Commons; 12. Cooper and the Tragedy of the Commons Dana D. Nelson; 13. Looks the Same to Me: Post Seattle, Post Sealth Paula Gunn-Allen; 14. Agriculture, Empire, and Ecology: Re-Farming the New World Order Scott Hicks; 15. History's Place Markers in Memory: 1954 and 1999 Thadious M. Davis; 16. Along the Border Bill V. Mullen; 17. Tomato Pickers and the Challenges of Today's Classrooms Judith Scott Girgus; 18. Langston Hughes on the Historically White Campus Joanne M. Braxton Art and Activism; 19. Where the Language Discovers Itself Carolyn Forche; 20. Deep Water, No Life Rafts George Saunders; 21. Not Yet Global Citizens Laurie Garret; 22. The Anti-Tribalist Identity-Based Movement for Pluralist Democracy Tony Kushner Another World is Possible; 23. Neither Capitalist Nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement Michael Denning; 24. Ivory Towers, Velvet Gloves Daniel Lang-Levitsky; 25. The Status of Intellectual Authority and the Promise of Democracy Silvio Torres-Saillant; 26. Teaching After the Battle in Seattle: This is What Plutocracy Looks Like George Lipsitz Notes on Contributors.