The Subversive Imagination : artists, society and social responsibility / edited by Carol Becker

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: presenting the problem / Carol Becker -- I. Personal Responsibility and Political Contingencies: 1. The prehistory of art: cultural practices and Athenian democracy / Page duBois -- 2. A plea for irresponsibility / Ewa Kuryluk -- 3. Dead doll prophecy / Kathy Acker -- 4. The heuristic power of art / Elizam Escobar -- 5. Place, position, power, politics / Martha Rosler -- 6. The velvet revolution and iron necessity / Eva Hauser -- 7. El diario de Miranda/Miranda's diary / Coco Fusco -- II. Decolonizing the imagination: 8. Herbert Marcuse and the subversive potential of art / Carol Becker -- 9. East and West, the twain do meet : a tale of more than two worlds / Felipe Ehrenberg -- 10. Defining South African literature for a new nation / Njabulo S. Ndebele -- 11. The politics of Black masculinity and the ghetto in Black film / Michael Eric Dyson -- 12. Adjusting to the world according to Salman Rushdie / Ahmad Sadri -- III. Theorizing the Future: 13. Benetton’s "world without borders": buying social change / Henry A. Giroux. 14. The Free Art Agreement/El Tratado de Libre Cultura / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- 15. Dissed and disconnected : notes on present ills and future dreams / B. Ruby Rich -- Index -- Contributors