And then, there’s James Joyce. The great Irish writer is absolutely worthy of his reputation.
They didn’t write a word of the text themselves, but they shaped the world around them.
During the cold war, the United States needed a proxy, an enemy to fight against the Soviet Union. It found that evil in the form of communism, which represented the ultimate threat. And it found a willing partner in the strongman leader of a hostile and dangerous country: Joseph Stalin.
Some of the greatest writers in the world are beloved for their prose. They’re authors who have written for readers of all ages. They’re authors who have changed the way we view the world. They are the writers we’d want to read if we were stranded on a desert island.
It is imperative to examine how cultural capital and an intimate knowledge of power dynamics within a socio-cultural context shapes successful activist work.