Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice

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.
The first section offers a historical overview of major developments and debates in the field, while the following sections look in more detail at the key traditions and show how literature and theory can be applied as analytical tools to real- world inequalities and the impact of doing so. The contributors provide reviews of major theoretical traditions, including Marxism, feminism, Critical Race Theory, disability studies, and queer studies. They also share literary analyses of influential authors including W. E. B. Du Bois, Yang Kui, Edwidge Danticat, Octavia Butler, and Rivers Solomon amongst others. The final section considers future possibilities for theory and action of justice, drawing specifically from theories and knowledges in decolonial, Indigenous, environmental, and posthumanist studies.
This authoritative volume draws on the intersections between literary studies and social movements in order to provide scholars, students, and activists alike with a complete collection of the most up- to- date information on both canonical and emerging texts and case studies globally.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Masood Ashraf (University of North Texas Raja
• Assisted by: Nick T. C. Lu (Editor), Masood Ashraf Raja (Editor), Raja Masood Ashraf (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032159423
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215942-3
• No. of pages: 574
• Series: Routledge Literature Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social discrimination & inequality, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Social discrimination and social justice