Overview
- Encompasses philosophical, literary, political, and media theory
- Utilizes perspectives from the Frankfurt School, poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and transborder theory
- Organized to take readers from more general approaches and arguments about the alt-right to specific applications of theory or use of particular canonical texts to understand this moment
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection uses critical theory in order to understand the rise of the Alt-Right and the election of Donald Trump—and, in doing so, to assert the necessity and value of various disciplines within the humanities. While neoliberal mainstream culture has expressed shock at the seemingly expeditious rise of the Alt-Right movement and the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election, a rich tradition of theory may not only explain the occurrence of this “phenomenon,” but may also chart an alternative understanding of the movement, revealing the persistence of right-wing populism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Though the humanities have seen themselves undervalued and under attack in recent years, the historical and cultural contextualization of the current moment via theory is a means of reaffirming the value of the humanities in teaching the ever-important and multifaceted skill of critical literacy. This book re-affirms the humanities, particularly the study of literature, theory, and philosophy, through questions such as how the humanities can help us understand the here and now.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christine M. Battista is Assistant Professor of English at Johnson & Wales University, Denver, USA. She is co-editor of Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies (Palgrave, 2016). She specializes in the environmental humanities, theory and criticism, postcolonial studies, and American literature.
Melissa R. Sande is Dean of Humanities at Union County College, USA. Her work has been published in such venues as Quarterly Horse and The Journal of South Texas English Studies. She specializes in American and Caribbean women’s writing, as well as literary theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Theory and the Humanities in the Age of the Alt-Right
Editors: Christine M. Battista, Melissa R. Sande
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18753-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18752-1Published: 04 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18755-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18753-8Published: 22 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Theory, Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural Studies, US Politics, Critical Theory