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American Protest Literature

November 15, 2006

Zoe Trodd tutorial board, Harvard

Adoyo Owuor founder, Zamani Foundation

Timothy Patrick McCarthy instructor, history, Harvard

John Stauffer professor, English, Harvard

Doric Wilson playwright

Author Zoe Trodd discusses how her book celebrates an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. Adoyo Owuor reads the Emancipation Proclamation, Timothy Patrick McCarthy reads Eugene V. Debs' Statement to the Court, John Stauffer displays a stunning collection of 20th century protest photography, and Doric Wilson presents excerpts from his play Street Theater.

Topics: History | Literature & Philosophy

Tags: abolishinists | Authors | patriotism | political movements | protest literature | protest writers | Profiles

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