T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and   political actionand between political action and literary theory. What   can the   "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements";  and what can   social   activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist   theory, and   neomarxism?  In strikingly new interpretations of texts in four different genresAgee   and   Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ellison's Invisible Man,  Mailer's   Armies   of the Night, and the ecofeminist Women's Pentagon Actions of the early   1980sReed shows how reading literary texts for their political   strategies and   reading political movements as texts can help us overcome certain   rhetorical   traps that have undermined American efforts to combat racism, sexism,   and   economic inequality.

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