Hope in the Dark : Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Solnit, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781560255772
• ISBN10: 1560255773
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Arguing that the "uprising" against the War in Iraq was actually a victory, not a defeat, the author traces the many interwoven threads of the anti-globalization and anti-war movements, revealing the contours of a new brand of radicalism in America. Original.

Author Biography

Rebecca Solnit: An activist and cultural historian, she writes about place, environment, politics and culture. Rebecca Solnit is the recipient of the Lannan Literary award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and lives in San Francisco

Table of Contents

Looking into Darkness	p. 1
Other Ways of Telling	p. 7
Despair and Discontent, or the Wall and the Door	p. 13
What We Won	p. 21
The Millennium Arrives: November 9, 1989	p. 27
The Millennium Arrives: January 1, 1994	p. 33
The Millennium Arrives: November 30, 1999	p. 41
The Millennium Arrives: September 11, 2001	p. 49
The Millennium Arrives: February 15, 2003	p. 53
Changing the Imagination of Change	p. 57
On the Indirectness of Direct Action	p. 63
The Angel of Alternate History	p. 73
Viagra for Caribou	p. 77
Getting the Hell Out of Paradise	p. 81
Across the Great Divide	p. 91
After Ideology	p. 103
The Global Local	p. 109
Interruption: The World Catches Fire	p. 117
A Dream Three Times the Size of Texas	p. 125
Doubt	p. 133
Journey to the Center of the World	p. 139
Acknowledgments	p. 144
Notes	p. 145
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