Protest on the page
Subtitle: essays on print and the culture of dissent since 1865
By: Edited by James L. Baughman, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, & James P. Danky
Series: Print culture history in modern America
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press; University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780299302849; 9780299302832
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Underground press publications; History; Press and politics; American Protest literature
Description: "The use of print to challenge prevailing ideas and conventions has a long history in American public life. As dissenters in America sought social change, they used print to document, articulate, and disseminate their ideas to others. Protest always begins on the margins, but print is the medium that allows it to reach a larger audience. In Protest on the Page, scholars in multiple disciplines offer ten original essays that examine protest print culture in America since 1865. They explore the surprising range of dissidents who enlisted print in their causes--from vegetarians and anarchists at the advent of the twentieth century, to midcentury evangelicals and tween comic book readers, to GIs and feminists in the 1970s-'80s. Together they demonstrate that print has never been a neutral medium, but rather has been instrumental in shaping the substance of protest and its audiences." -- Publisher's description
Notes: "This collection includes papers originally presented at a September 2012 conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, in Madison, Wisconsin"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Protest and print culture in America / James P. Danky; title: "A necessary relation": protest and American print culture / James L. Baughman; title: Part 1: Reaction and revolt. Writing redemption: racially ambiguous carpetbaggers and the Southern print culture campaign against Reconstruction / Adam Thomas; title: The inky protest of an anarchist printmaker: Carlo Abate's newspaper illustrations and the artist's hand in the age of mechanical reproduction / Andrew D. Hoyt; title: Spanish-language anarchist periodicals in early twentieth-century United States / Nicolas Kanellos; title: Pamphlets of self-determination: dissident literature, productive fiction / Trevor Joy Sangrey; title: Part 2: Consensus contested. By the pinch and the pound: American vegetarian cookbooks from the nineteenth century to the present / Laura J. Miller and Emilie Hardman; title: Meeting the modernistic tide: the book as evangelical battleground in the 1940s / Daniel Vaca; title: Children and the comics: young readers take on the critics / Carol L. Tilley; title: Part 3: Dangerous print. Paper soldiers: The Ally and the GI underground press during the Vietnam War / Derek Seidman; title: The clowning of Richard Nixon in the underground press / Micah Robbins; title: off/On Our Backs: the feminist press in the "sex wars" of the 1980s / Joyce M. Latham.