The Literature of Protest presents the field of protest and liberation literature, drawn from authors and events in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The volume, part of the Critical Insights series, presents original critical chapters on a fairly diverse collection of American and international writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, George Orwell, and the Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin. While the texts and historical events covered here are fairly well known and have been studied before, they are not usually examined as part of a tradition of protest literature. Although a diverse geographical, cultural, and historical field of study, what draws these texts together is their related set of approaches for conveying socially progressive ideas to readers in an emotionally compelling, consciousness-altering way. Edited by Kimberly Drake, Director of the Writing Program at Scripps College, the protest texts covered in this volume are connected to particular social movements and directed at specific audiences, but they share the same general goals: to show readers the inner workings of social injustice and to help them resist such injustice. The chapters in this volume go further in providing readers with useful approaches to and interpretations of these texts. Contributors include Rachel Stauffer, Lydia Willsky, Mikhail Bjorge, Babacar M’Baye, and Adeline Carrie Koscher. Supplemental materials include a list of literary works not studied in the book and a bibliography of critical sources for readers seeking to study the genre in greater depth.