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Russia Has Always Hated Ukrainian Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2022

Russia has long sought to impose its language on its neighbors, sometimes even outlawing their indigenous lit.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged cultural genocide, Frantz Fanon, Taras Shevchenko, Vladimir Nabokov, Wretched of the Earth | Comments closed

Literature as a Basis for Social Change

By Robin Bates | Published: October 20, 2015

Italian activist Antonio Gramsci believed that the common people have an unconscious philosophy that, if harnessed, can become the basis for social change. I argue that they also have unconscious literary taste that can also be harnessed.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Antonio Gramsci, class struggle, Literary Theory, organic intellectuals, Prison Notebooks | Comments closed