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The Republic of Letters examines how in recent years, working class people, particularly women and black people, have begun to develop new forms of writing, new modes of local, collective publishing, alternative distribution networks-the elements of a movement which aims to adisestablish' literature, making writing a popular form of expression, not the preserve of a privileged metropolitan elite. Many of the people involved in these projects have, since 1976, been working together in the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers.
This book explores the central issues in this field of cultural politics, where the very words-locality, literature, community, culture-are the sites of tension and conflict, but are also, increasingly, the sites of breakthroughs for new forms of communication.
