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Letterpress Revolution Kathy E. Ferguson

Letterpress Revolution By Kathy E. Ferguson

Letterpress Revolution by Kathy E. Ferguson


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Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of anarchist letterpress printers and presses, whose printed materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to 1940s.

Letterpress Revolution Summary

Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture by Kathy E. Ferguson

While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution, Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. Ferguson shows how printers-whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers-arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the page. Printers' extensive correspondence with fellow anarchists and the radical ideas they published created dynamic and entangled networks that brought the decentralized anarchist movements together. Printers and presses did more than report on the movement; they were constitutive of it, and their vitality in anarchist communities helps explain anarchism's remarkable persistence in the face of continuous harassment, arrest, assault, deportation, and exile. By inquiring into the political, material, and aesthetic practices of anarchist print culture, Ferguson points to possible methods for cultivating contemporary political resistance.

Letterpress Revolution Reviews

By focusing on letterpress Ferguson presents a novel way of looking at the history of Anarchism. Letterpress as a way of working generates an active hands-on ambition to build and embody new and creative ideas. . . . Ferguson's history promotes the message that meaningful radical development builds from face-to-face, hand-to-hand, cooperative endeavour. -- Peter Good * Kate Sharpley Library *
Ferguson's half-century of involvement in radical politics and her painstaking research in anarchist collections (many of them ill organized) qualifies her to write this dense but compelling history. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- T. S. Martin * Choice *
In fluid prose, Ferguson offers a fresh historical look at the anarchist movement through a focus on lesser-known figures and their lesser-known labours, including printing and letter-writing. -- Layla Saleh * LSE Review of Books *

About Kathy E. Ferguson

Kathy E. Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the author of several books, including Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Anarchist Letters 1
1. Printers and Presses 21
2. Epistolarity 83
3. Radical Study 129
4. Intersectionality and Thing Power 185
Appendix A. Compositors, Pressmen, and Bookbinders 215
Appendix B. Brief Biographies 225
Appendix C. Printers Interviewed 231
Notes 233
Letters Referenced 281
Bibliography 287
Index 317

Additional information

NGR9781478019237
9781478019237
1478019239
Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture by Kathy E. Ferguson
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2023-02-24
352
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