Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis by Laist, Randy
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis by Laist, Randy

Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis

The United States of America-its politics, its culture, and its identity-is often framed as an evolving conversation...
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Author: Randy Laist
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Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis by Laist, Randy

Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis

$77.82
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis by Laist, Randy

Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis

$77.82
Author: Randy Laist
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The United States of America-its politics, its culture, and its identity-is often framed as an evolving conversation about the nature of freedom. The word "freedom" is ubiquitous in political rhetoric, patriotic songs, advertising, and activism. Conflicts in American life typically revolve around questions of what it means to be free, who gets to be free, the limitations of freedom, and the problems and paradoxes associated with freedom. In the twenty-first century, in a time of social media, digital surveillance, climate change, pandemic management, autocratic politicians, and evolving attitudes about race, sexuality, gender, and ethnicity, the old question of what freedom truly entails calls for new answers, new ways of thinking, and even new ways of being free. In this time of crisis, it is imperative that democratic populations engage in earnest and open-ended discourse about what freedom means, how it is defined, and what it looks like. Figures of Freedom answers the call. This provocative and thought-provoking collection of essays by an international team of scholars invites readers to witness how recent literary, filmic, and televisual narratives have represented and reimagined themes of personal and political agency in the context of twenty-first-century aspirations and anxieties. In various ways, films as diverse as Bird Box, Toy Story, and Pacific Rim, television series such as Mad Men and Mr. Robot, and novels such as DeLillo's Zero K, Whitehead's Underground Railroad, and Millet's A Children's Bible all present characters who grapple with classical questions of freedom against a recognizably contemporary backdrop of terror, tyranny, technology, and apocalypse. Together, they reveal what twenty-first-century narratives can teach us about how the idea of freedom has been expanded, distorted, and reimagined in contemporary fiction.

Author: Randy Laist
Publisher: Fourth Horseman Press
Published: 04/19/2024
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780988392243

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