Holley Cantine
Born(1916-02-14)February 14, 1916
DiedJanuary 2, 1977(1977-01-02) (aged 60)
Woodstock, New York
Known forRetort

Holley R. Cantine, Jr., (1916–1977) was a writer and activist best known for publishing the anarchist periodical Retort with Dachine Rainer.

Life

Cantine was born on February 14, 1916,[1] and raised in Woodstock, New York. His father owned a paper-coating business in Saugerties and his mother was a painter.[2]

Cantine edited the first issue of Retort with Dorothy Paul in June 1942. By the 1947, Cantine was editing alongside the anarchist poet Dachine Rainer and Retort has become "An Anarchist Quarterly".[3] The pair were jailed during World War II as conscientious objectors. They subsequently edited and published a collection of writings from conscientious objectors, Prison Etiquette, in 1950.[4] Retort ceased publication in 1951.[2]

He also wrote a weekly periodical, The Wasp, which took antagonistic aim at Woodstock tourists ("trudgers") and the town's commercialization.[5] His 1959 science fiction short story, "Double Double Toil and Trouble", received several awards. Cantine also translated Volin's The Unknown Revolution from French and his own Second Chance: A Story.[4]

Cantine died on January 2, 1977,[1] in a house fire in Woodstock.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Berger, Dan (2010). The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism. Rutgers University Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-8135-4873-9.
  2. ^ a b Evers 1987, p. 616.
  3. ^ Evers 1987, p. 606.
  4. ^ a b New Abolitionists, The: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings. SUNY Press. July 14, 2005. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-7914-8310-7.
  5. ^ Evers 1987, pp. 616–617.
  6. ^ Avrich, Paul (2005). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. AK Press. p. 526. ISBN 978-1-904859-27-7.

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Cornell, Andrew (2011). "A New Anarchism Emerges, 1940–1954". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 5 (1): 105–131. ISSN 1930-1189. JSTOR 41889949.
  • Cornell, Andrew (2016). Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28675-7.
  • Cornell, Andrew (2017). "New Wind: The Why?/Resistance Group and the Roots of Contemporary Anarchism, 1942–1954". In Goyens, Tom (ed.). Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 122–141. ISBN 978-0-252-08254-2.
  • Hodges, Donald Clark (1974). "Retort". In Conlin, Joseph Robert (ed.). The American Radical Press, 1880–1960. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 423–429. ISBN 0-8371-6625-X.
  • Rainer, Dachine (1994). "Holley Cantine: February 14, 1916 – January 2, 1977". In Blechman, Max (ed.). Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia; Left Bank Books. pp. 177–185.


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