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A vital resource for anyone interested in literature and politics, this is the first in-depth study of epistemic injustice as a concept for literary studies. Focusing on contemporary fiction in an age of post-truth, it shows how novels reveal epistemic injustice as an authoritarian practice and offer an aesthetics of resistance.
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Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. VIOLENT TIMES
I. Necropolitical space-time Petrifying times and twin temporalities in
1000 Coils of FearII. Epistemic ghostingPicaresque unheroism and ghosted knowledge in
VoroshilovgradCHAPTER 2. ABSENT VOICES
I. Epistemologies of ignorance and petrified storiesWhite lies in the Bardo
II. Deadly silences Violent silencing, necro-joking and necro-pleasure in
We That Are YoungCHAPTER 3. DIVISIVE FORMS
I. Hierarchies and binariesLogics of purity in
We That Are YoungII. Split-separation in the necropatriarchyThe murderous Midas touch. Purity and profiteering in
Ada's RealmCHAPTER 4. PETRIFIED BODIES
I. Written on the body Traces of injustice in
We Need New NamesII. The body as archive Marks of violence in
GloryCHAPTER 5. THE END OF MEANING
I. The pure and simple ... lieLife and Death and the lie of state
II. Postnarrative 'There is no why here'. Ultimate epistemic injustice in
GloryPART 2 BREATHING FIRE. ANIMATING AESTHETICSCHAPTER 6. INSURRECTIONARY TIMES
I. Transtemporal possibilitiesTime in the singular plural.
1000 Coils of Fear and
Ada's RealmII. Epistemic revenants Haunting and counter-memory.
Voroshilovgrad and
GloryCHAPTER 7. OTHER VOICES
I. Eccentric narratorsDisruptive knowledge. Picaresque and trickster voices in
We Need New Names and
Life and Death Are Wearing Me OutII. Guerrilla epistemologyAnimals as epistemic guerrilleros.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and
GloryCHAPTER 8. BODIES IN RELATION
I. Affirmative pleasure Counter-pleasure and blues irony in
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and
VoroshilovgradII. Motherhood and mayonnaiseChiasmus and curdling.
Lincoln in the Bardo and
Ada's RealmCHAPTER 9. THE FUTURE OF MEANING
I. Meaning beyond monodyProvoking pluralism in
Lincoln in the Bardo and
We That Are YoungII.
Animapoetics. Stories in the face of death'There's a chance you won't be remembered as a total asshole'. Hope and community in
Voroshilovgrad and
GloryCONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has authored and edited a number of books including
Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners (2022) and (with Stephanie Galasso)
Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency: Global Perspectives on Literature and Film (Routledge, 2023)
