Rue Sainte-Ursule | James Gifford | Anarchist Essays Episode 3
Channel: Anarchism Research Group Loughborough
Date: 2020-12-03

In this work of creative non-fiction, James Gifford explores how narrative form can engage with anarchism by looking for evanescent moments of freedom between reactionary nostalgia for the past and prefigurative utopianism for the future.James is Professor of Literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Director of FDU Press. His work is on anarchism, literary modernism, and popular culture, and his recent books are A Modernist Fantasy: Anarchism, Modernism, & the Radical Fantastic and Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks & the Later Avant-Gardes. For his latest article see 'Goblin Modernism: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic'.


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