Maverick Voices
Conversations with Political and Cultural Rebels
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:1st Jul '04
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Mavericks may not make the world go around, but they do make it an infinitely more interesting place. Maverick Voices offers in-depth interviews with prominent iconoclasts stubbornly at work in the interlacing realms of politics, literature, film, art, and psychotherapy. These highly accomplished people, who hail from the USA, Europe, and Latin America, thrived in their fields against the odds, often gaining worldwide acclaim. They are exemplars of a rare breed of fiercely independent, creative, and committed artists and activists who shake things up, shatter barriers, and scorn taboos. These conversations probe the wellsprings of their work, their struggles, and their achievements. Whether defying a death squad, exposing government lies, challenging censors, writing graphic accounts of how war reallly feels, puncturing cherished national myths, making zesty, sexy, crazy films, or finding ingenious ways to heal deeply disturbed kids, they contribute to a more fascinating and humane world and they appeal to the maverick at play or at bay in all of us.
Kurt Jacobsen's Maverick Voices is a powerful, inspiring tribute to an honorable company of dissenters, whose wisdom and courage are vindicated every day now. -- John Pilger
Kurt Jacobsen's collection of Maverick Voices brings together fascinating interviews with top writers and thinkers of our time who dare to go against the grain. Full of illuminating insights into politics, the arts, and psychotherapy, Jacobsen's interviews and commentaries should interest all concerned with ideas and culture in the contemporary moment. -- Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
Kurt Jacobsen's Maverick Voices is not to be missed by any with an interest in political and cultural challenges to the status quo. . . . [It] brings together a virtual melting pot of interviews with top modern thinkers and writers of our times who dare to confront the status quo of theories on social and political standards. * The Bookwatch *
Maverick Voices serves both as reprieve to what Studs Terkel calls 'the evil of banality' and a narrative of political and cultural renewal. Jacobsen's interviews emerge as engaging and powerful portraits that sizzle with creative insights into the arts, society, politics, and the human condition. These maverick voices are those that will serve as the enabling conditions for our cultural and political evolution. -- Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China
ISBN: 9780742533967
Dimensions: 225mm x 227mm x 14mm
Weight: 327g
240 pages