Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture

Shelley Streeby

Published by Duke University Press 2013

Radical Sensations

World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture

Shelley Streeby

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395546

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About this book

Radical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation.

Author / Editor information

Shelley Streeby is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture and a coeditor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction.

Reviews

"Radical Sensations is superb scholarship in every way. It engages many emerging currents in contemporary scholarship but has the field of transnational radicalism between 1886 and 1927 all to itself. Among its many contributions, a singularly important one is Shelley Streeby's explanation of why culture counts and how history happens. Part of politics is the production and management of affect. Streeby shows how sentiment and sensation became the lingua franca of American politics in the nineteenth century, with mixed results for radical social movements. The very discourses of sentiment and sensationalism that enabled some radical critiques to gain traction with the masses hobbled others by letting sympathy substitute for social justice."—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place

"This is a brilliantly conceived book, filled with novel insights into the ways that new media and visual technologies intersected with and enabled what Shelley Streeby aptly terms 'the proliferation of rival world visions and internationalisms’ of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. Radical Sensations is the book that I have been waiting to teach in courses on U.S. history or transnational methodology."—Penny M. Von Eschen, author of Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957

“Provocative and insightful. . . .”

-- Paul Buhle Journal of American History

“Radical Sensations is a work of astonishing complexity, a cultural history that gives us a portrait into a bridge period of Hemispheric eras, one that must piece together nineteenth-century physical expansion to later twentieth-century articulations….”

-- Samantha Pinto American Literature

"[Streeby's] unique approach and nuanced use of visual and print sources make this book a must-read for all labor historians."

-- David M. Struthers Labor

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part I. Global Haymarket Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Part II. Revolutionary U.S.- Mexico Borderlands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part III. Black Radical New York City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Epilogue. Deportation Scenes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 88 illustrations

eBook

Published: February 8, 2013
ISBN: 9780822395546