The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice

ISBN-13: 9781032159423 / Twarda / 2023 / 624 str.

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi-purpose collection on this important topic. With contributors working in various fields, the Companion provides in-depth analyses of both the cumulative and emergent issues, obstacles, praxes, propositions, and theories of social justice.

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Note to the Readers

Beyond Awareness: Introduction

Part I: Introducing Social Justice

Chapter 1: Pedagogy Advancing Social Justice through the Study of Literature: Basic Pedagogical Principles

Mark Bracher

Chapter 2: Literary Analysis: Social Justice: A Philosophical Introduction

Nick T. C. Lu and Hue Woodson

Chapter 3: Praxis: The Solitary Reader and the General Strike

Andrew David King

Part II: Theoretical Interventions in Social Justice

Chapter 4: Feminism and Social Justice: Translating Private Problems into Public Problems

Robin Truth Goodman

Chapter 5: Disabled Diaspora: Transnational Models of Disability Justice

Anna Hinton

Chapter 7: Critical Race Theory: A Theoretical Overview

Aja Y. Martinez

Chapter 8: Ecocriticism: From the Wilderness Idea to Just Multispecies Futures

Delia Byrnes

Chapter 9: Marxist Theory

Peter Hudis

Chapter 10: Postcolonial Theory: A Theoretical Overview

Hella Bloom Cohen

Chapter 11: Bringing Theory Home: Decoloniality and the Global South

Antonette Talaue-Arogo

Chapter 12: A Short History of Liberation Theology: From Latin America to the United States, Palestine, and India, 1968-1989

Hue Woodson

Part III: Social Justice and Antiracism

Chapter 13: Praxis: Life Among the Lowly: The African American Struggle to Make a Home in America

Kavon Franklin

Chapter 14: Literary Analysis: W. E. B. Du Bios, James Cone, and the Black Christ: The History and Legacy of Black Liberation Theology

Kevin Pyon

Chapter 15: Literary Analysis: "To Be on Fire for Justice": James Cone’s Legacy and Cornel West’s Prophetic Commitments to Liberational-Theological Social Justice

Hue Woodson

Chapter 16: Literary Analysis: Navigating the Gaze: The Gaze, Double-Consciousness, and the Politics of Passing in Nella Larsen’s Passing

Emily Fontenot

Chapter 17: Literary Analysis:  Black Futurities Beyond the Human in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts

Kristen Reynolds

Chapter 18: Literary Analysis: From Politics to Ethical Aesthetics: Literary Peace Activism, Social Emotions and Poetic Justice in Australian Minorities Fiction

Jean-Francois Vernay

Chapter 19: Pedagogy: Challenging Racial and Religious Stereotypes through Literature

Nisreen Yamany

Chapter 20: Pedagogy: Examining Students’ Critical-Ethical Interruptions of Racial Discourse in Singapore Literature Classrooms

Nah Dominic and Suzanne Choo

Part IV: Social Justice for Diverse Bodyminds

Chapter 21: Praxis: Trans Youth Movements

Eli Erlick

Chapter 22: Praxis: Making Sense of the Disability Autonomy and Collectivity Binary: A Review of Informal Disability Justice Pedagogy (IDJP) across Cultures

Sona Kazemi and Hemachandran Karah

Chapter 23: Literary Analysis: "It Hurts, That’s All I Know": Hyperempathy, Race and Gender Disability, and the Possibilities of Social Animacy in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Jennifer Cho

Chapter 24: Praxis: Postcolonial Feminism: Women’s Digital Activism and Its Challenges in South Asia with a Focus on Pakistan

Naila Sahar

Chapter 25: Literary Analysis: Re-Defining Dalit Female Identity: A Case Study of Dalit Feminist Movement and Dalit Women’s Writings

Rashmi Attri and Neha Arora

Chapter 26: Pedagogy: "World"-Traveling in the Classroom as an Enactment of Critical Pedagogies

Julia Reade

Part V: Social Justice and Democracy

Chapter 27: Pedagogy: Teaching Literature as Equipment for Living Democratically

Ryan Skinnell

Chapter 28: Literary Analysis: Collaging the Vox Populi: The Crowdsourced Poetics of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Protest

Wayne CF Yeung

Chapter 29: Literary Analysis: Blasphemy, Religiosity, and Digitality: An Enchanted Pakistan

Iqra Cheema

Chapter 30: Literary Analysis: "Without Inspection" and the Poetics of Abolition

Ryan Augustyniak

Chapter 31: Praxis: Romania’s "White Revolution": A Case Study on Social Movements for Civil Rights and Democracy in Eastern Europe

Cringuta Irina Pelea

Part VI: Global Justice and Anti-Imperialism

Chapter 32: Literary Analysis: Happiness, Social Justice, and the Bildungsroman: On the Postcolonial Biopolitics of Waiting for Happiness

Jefferey R. Di Leo

Chapter 33: Literary Analysis: Class-Nation, Nation-Class: Anticolonial Marxism as Justice Politics for Redistribution and Recognition in Yang Kui’s "Newspaper Carrier" and "A Model Village"

Nick T. C. Lu

Chapter 34: Literary Analysis: To Read for Suffering: Using the Film Burn! To Challenge Imperialism

Alexander C. Ruhsenberger

Chapter 35: Speak Up and Dance: The Convergence of Palestinian and African/Black Struggles in Afrodabke

Ha Dong

Chapter 36: Pedagogy: The 1947 Partition Archive: A Contemporary Pedagogical Resources to Teach the Rival History of the Partition of India

Priyanka Bisht and Merlyn Sharma

Part VII: Future Justice for a World More Than Human

Chapter 37: Literary Analysis: Artificial Beings, Servitude and Rights: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

Pramod K. Nayar

Chapter 38: Literary Analysis: Toward an Oceanic Taiwanese Imagery: Syaman Rapongan’s Sea Writing and Liao Hongji’s Cetacean Narrative

Pei-yin Lin

Chapter 39: Praxis: The Standing Rock Water Protectors: Indigenous Sovereignty as a Refutation to Extractive Settler Colonialism

Jeff Gessas

Chapter 40: Pedagogy: Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist Realism

Claire Ravenscroft

Index

O autorze

Masood Ashraf Raja was formerly Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of North Texas, USA. His publications include Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred (2023).

Nick T. C. Lu is Assistant Professor of English at Marist College, USA. His work has appeared in Research in African Literatures.