Emma Goldman in Exile
Author | : Alice Wexler |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807070475 |
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Author | : Alice Wexler |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780807070475 |
Author | : Emma Goldman |
Publisher | : Schocken Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Avrich |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674067673 |
In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives, the lasting influence of the anarchist movement they shaped, and their unyielding commitment to equality and justice. Berkman shocked the country in 1892 with "the first terrorist act in America," the failed assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick for his crimes against workers. Passionate and pitiless, gloomy yet gentle, Berkman remained Goldman's closest confidant though the two were often separated-by his fourteen-year imprisonment and by Emma's growing fame as the champion of a multitude of causes, from sexual liberation to freedom of speech. The blazing sun to Sasha's morose moon, Emma became known as "the most dangerous woman in America." Through an attempted prison breakout, multiple bombing plots, and a dramatic deportation from America, these two unrelenting activists insisted on the improbable ideal of a socially just, self-governing utopia, a vision that has shaped movements across the past century, most recently Occupy Wall Street. Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities and perils of political faith and protest, through a pair who both terrified and dazzled the world.
Author | : Candace Falk |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2019-06-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1978806477 |
“What this remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in our time as in theirs.” —Howard Zinn “Fascinating ...With marvelous clarity and depth, Candace Falk illuminates for us an Emma Goldman shaped by her time yet presaging in her life the situation and conflicts of women in our time.” —Tillie Olsen One of the most famous political activists of all time, Emma Goldman was also infamous for her radical anarchist views and her “scandalous” personal life. In public, Goldman was a firebrand, confidently agitating for labor reform, anarchism, birth control, and women’s independence. But behind closed doors she was more vulnerable, especially when it came to the love of her life. Reissued on the sesquicentennial of Emma Goldman's birth, Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman is an account of Goldman’s legendary career as a political activist. But it is more than that—it is the only biography of Emma Goldman. The flow of her life and words is at its core. Here, Candace Falk offers an intimate look at how Goldman’s passion for social reform dovetailed with her passion for one man: Chicago activist, hobo king, and red-light district gynecologist Ben Reitman. This takes us into the heart of their tumultuous love affair, finding that even as Goldman lectured on free love, she confronted her own intense jealousy. As director of the Emma Goldman papers, Falk had access to over 40,000 writings by Goldman—including her private letters and notes—and she draws upon these archives to give us a rare insight into this brilliant, complex woman’s thoughts. The result is both a riveting love story and a primer on an exciting, explosive era in American politics and intellectual life.
Author | : Emma Goldman |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1970-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780486225449 |
The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities
Author | : Vivian Gornick |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300177615 |
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power--these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount.Anarchist par excellence, Goldman is one of the memorable political figures of our time, not because of her gift for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some extraordinary force of life in her burned, without rest or respite, on behalf of human integrity--and she was able to make the thousands of people who, for decades on end, flocked to her lectures, feel intimately connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that integrity. To hear Emma describe, in language as magnetic as it was illuminating, what the boot felt like on the neck, was to experience the mythic quality of organized oppression. As the women and men in her audience listened to her, the homeliness of their own small lives became invested with a sense of drama that acted as a catalyst for the wild, vagrant hope that things need not always be as they were. All you had to do, she promised, was resist. In time, she herself would become a world-famous symbol for the spirit of resistance to the power of institutional authority over the lone individual.In "Emma Goldman, " Vivian Gornick draws a surpassingly intimate and insightful portrait of a woman of heroic proportions whose performance on the stage of history did what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: it made people love life more.
Author | : Marian J. Morton |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
There, she worked on behalf of the Bolshevik government, but soon became disillusioned with the Soviet state, which she came to see as a nascent tyranny. Fleeing that country, she spent the rest of her life wandering, a permanent exile "nowhere at home." During Goldman's later life, and especially after her death, her reputation went into a temporary eclipse. As the social upheavals of the earlier part of the century faded from memory and as the anarchist movement declined, she came to seem a colorful but irrelevant figure of an increasingly distant past. With the onset of a new wave of political discontent in the 1960s, however, Goldman was once again a subject of scholarly and popular interest. Her writings were reissued; her image was often displayed on wall posters and picket signs; her name and example were frequently invoked by the activists of the period.
Author | : Andre Naffis-Sahely |
Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1782274278 |
A fascinatingly diverse anthology of the literature of exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetry Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys through six continents, with over a hundred contributors drawn from twenty-four languages. Highlights include the wisdom of the 5th century Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Swahili Song of Liyongo, The Flight of the Irish Earls, Emma Goldman's travails in the wake of the First Red Scare, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani's ode to the lost world of Andalusia and the work of contemporary Eritrean fabulist Ribka Sibhatu. Edited by poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely, The Heart of a Stranger offers a uniquely varied look at a theme both ancient and urgently contemporary.
Author | : Clare Hemmings |
Publisher | : Duke University Press Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822369981 |
In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and problems that Goldman's thinking about race, gender, and sexuality pose for feminist thought, Hemmings embraces them, finding them to be helpful in formulating a new queer feminist praxis. Mining three overlapping archives—Goldman's own writings, her historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in those archives —Hemmings shows how serious engagement with Goldman's political ambivalences opens up larger questions surrounding feminist historiography, affect, fantasy, and knowledge production. Moreover, she explores her personal affinity for Goldman to illuminate the role that affective investment plays in shaping feminist storytelling. By considering Goldman in all her contradictions and complexity, Hemmings presents a queer feminist response to the ambivalences that also saturate contemporary queer feminist race theories.
Author | : Emma Goldman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Anarchism |
ISBN | : |
The Emma Goldman Papers contain original letters between Goldman and Grace Wellington. The bulk of the collection consists of typed copies of correspondence between Goldman and associates in the United States that appear to have been sent to Wellington for reference. This material includes correspondence between Goldman and individuals such as the as the co-founders of the ACLU Roger Baldwin and Reverend John Haynes Holmes, radical Pittsburgh lawyer Jacob Margolis, and The Nation editor Freda Kirchwey. The letters discuss Goldman’s writings, politics, and updates on her travels in Canada, New York, Chicago, and parts of Europe. There are also other items including subscription lists (one for Alexander Berkman’s book), a photo of Goldman, two newspaper articles about Goldman, an advertisement for her lecture tour, three of her books (two volumes of Living My Life, one inscribed, and one volume of My Further Disillusionment in Russia), and an invitation to her lecture tour.