1st Edition

Cultures of Populism Institutions, Practices and Resistance

Edited By Merle A. Williams Copyright 2022
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity, examining its manifestations on both the political left and the right while tracing its dangerous association with nativism, racism and xenophobia.... Read more

1. Framing ‘Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance’ 
Merle A. Williams 
2. Trump the Antisemantic, and the Boundaries of Populism 
Stephen Clingman 
3. Populism and the Politics of Misinformation 
Eiríkur Bergmann 
4. Acts of Collusion: Myth, Media and the Populist Imagination in the 2016 United States Presidential Election 
Sorin Radu Cucu 
5. Burying Caesar . . . or Praising Him? Shakespeare and the Populist Right in the United States 
Chris Thurman 
6. Populism and Dog Whistle Writing: The Memoirs of J.D. Vance and Ta-Nehisi Coates 
Maria Lauret 
7. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First-Century American Politics 
Aretha Phiri 
8. Authoritarianism and the Planetary Mission of Queer of Colour Critique: A Brief Reflection 
Roderick A. Ferguson 
9. Authoritarian Patriarchy and Its Populism 
Inderpal Grewal 
10. Heritage, Narrative and the Role of the Humanities in Populist Times 
Marie Kruger 
11. Perplexing the Liquid University 
Wamuwi Mbao 
12. Responding to Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms and Our Teaching 
Phyllis van Slyck 
13. Global Populism and Its 1890s Southern United States Antecedent: The Vexing Case of Thomas E. Watson and William Faulkner’s Literary Intervention 
Donald R. Wehrs 
14. Populism, Privilege and Democracy in Henry James’s The Bostonians: Encounters with Community 
Merle A. Williams 
15. Autochthonous Oralities and Coral Islands: Imagining ‘The People’ in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Southern Fugitives 
Simon van Schalkwyk 
16. Populism vs. the Popular in South African Literature 
David Attwell 
17. Asbestos Populism in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest 
Arthur Rose 
18. ‘Don’t tell me this isn’t relevant all over again in its brand new same old way’: Imagination, Agitation and Raging against the Machine in Ali Smith’s Spring 
John Masterson 
19. UDPS Opposition Populism in the DRC and Its Reflection in Two Congolese Novels 
Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga 
20. Authoritarian Populism and the Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust 
Robyn Pierce
 
21. Finding the ‘Herstorical’ Narrative in Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give 
Adam Levin 

Biography

Merle A. Williams is Professor Emerita of English and a Research Associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing (reprinted in 2009) and has completed a scholarly text of The Awkward Age for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. Other edited volumes include Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South (Routledge, 2020) and several recent journal issues.