Brave new words : how literature will save the planet /
Elizabeth Ammons.
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2010.
- xiv, 197 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-190) and index.
Postmodern fundamentalism -- What David Walker and Harriet Beecher Stowe still have to teach us -- The multicultural imperative -- Rising waters -- Jesus, Marx, and the future of the planet.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc. Social change--Philosophy. Humanism--Social aspects. Social problems in literature. Social justice in literature. Humanism in literature. Literature and morals. Literature and society.