Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the literature of protest: words as weapons / Kimberly Drake -- Critical contexts. Countering the rhetoric of slavery: the critical roots and critical reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Lydia Willsky ; Brutish behavior: Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and anticolonial protests, 1899-1905 / Jeremiah Garsha ; Nella Larsen and Langston Hughes: modernist protest in the Harlem Renaissance / Kimberly Drake ; The meaning of rape in Richard Wright's Native Son / Kimberly Drake -- Critical readings. Radical and nationalist resistance in David Walker's and Frederick Douglass's antislavery narratives / Babacar M'Baye ; The new woman chafes against her bonds / Adeline Carrie Koscher ; The solidarity of song: proletarians, poetry, and the public sphere of the Lawrence textile strike of 1912 / Tara Forbes and Mikhail Bjorge ; Dystopia as protest: Zamyatin's We and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Rachel Stauffer ; Paranoia and pacifism in E.E. Cummings's The Enormous Room / Seth Johnson ; Holiness and heresy: Viramontes, la Virgen, and the mother-daughter bond / Christi Cook -- Resources. Additional works on the literature of protest.