The Chatto Book of DissentMichael Rosen, David Widgery Chatto & Windus, 1991 - 457 Seiten This is an anthology of verbal protest, whether avowedly political or quietly subversive, against war, racism, slavery, chauvinism, censorship, injustice and oppression in all their guises. It ranges in place and time from the Ancient Egyptian Satire of the Trades to Vaclav Havel's Memorandum, in form from Chaucerian verse to Parisian graffiti, and embraces protest songs, radio broadcasts, the text of seditious posters and the transcripts of trials; Charlotte Bronte and Lenny Bruce, Aesop and Aborigines. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Words Must be Given their True Meaning | 75 |
Opulence is always the Result of Theft | 173 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Anon arms believe BESSIE better Birdbrain Bishop of Hereford blood Church colliery Communist cops to dinner DADA dead death Democracy Wall dissent Doc Daneeka E. M. Forster earth enemy England English Eulespiegle Excerpt eyes face father feel fight Flann O'Brien force freedom friends FRONDOSO fucking Fuente Ovejuna girl give hands head heart human Ilda jail JUDGE killed King labour land laugh Lenny Bruce liberty live look Lords Lubec Mary means MENGO Menocchio mind Miss America mother murder nation never night O-Level oppressed pigs police political poor priest prison Ptydepe reprinted by permission rich SCUM slavery slaves society soldiers Spartacus speak talk tell there's things thou thought thousand William Cobbett woman women word workers Yossarian
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