Gender and Genre in Emma Goldman

Ferguson, Kathy E.

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“…Indeed, one of the primary contributions of affect theory has been to insist on the social character of emotions (P. Clough 2). From this perspective, as Kathy Ferguson suggests, we might view anarchist engagements with romanticism as questions of how to foster, suppress, sustain, and/or manage certain kinds of affect (742) – of how, in the words of Nathan L. Clough, to “construct new structures of feeling and emotional bonds intended to accelerate social struggle” (1670). Indeed, this is the question which anarchist readers of romanticism have consistently been the keenest to answer.…”

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Under History's Changing Climate: Anarchism's Romantic Moods

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2016

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Is anarchism itself a form of what Jerome J. McGann called “romantic ideology,” privileging passion over reason, the affective over the cognitive? An answer is more difficult to give than might be readily apparent. On the one hand, anarchists have defined their political identity against romanticism as the literature of “tender, delicate, distinguished souls, aspiring to heaven, and living on earth as if in spite of themselves (Bakunin).” However, the anarchist tradition does betray a certain romantic genealogy, and anarchists such as Louise Michel, Gustav Landauer, and Rudolf Rocker have often evinced fascination with what Proudhon lambasted as a “literature of decadence.” Ultimately, rather than rendering a definitive political judgment on romanticism, anarchists come to enlist elements of its poetry and philosophy to organize affects in response to changing historical conditions.

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“…juventude, continua a nos surpreender pela ousadia das suas ideias e práticas. Intensidade na vida, calor e empenho dramático nas experiências vividas, Goldman renova e radicaliza as posições libertárias e feministas de sua época, destacando-se, segundo suas biógrafas, pela maneira como articula eros e política, em sua própria existência e em suas narrativas políticas ou autobiográficas (Ferguson, 2011;Falk, 1984). Em diferentes frentes de ataque à exploração capitalista, ao imperialismo e à opressão de gênero, ousa discutir assuntos até então pouco enunciados por mulheres, mesmo entre as feministas.…”

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