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The Routledge companion to literature and social justice

Title
The Routledge companion to literature and social justice / edited by Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu.
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

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Additional Authors
  • Raja, Masood A., 1965-
  • Lu, Nick T. C., 1983-
  • Taylor & Francis
Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
Routledge literature companions
Uniform Title
Routledge companions to literature series.
Alternative Title
Literature and social justice
Subject
  • Social conflict in literature
  • Social justice in literature
  • Social change in literature
  • Literature and society
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2023).
Contents
Advancing social justice through the study of literature: basic pedagogical principles / Mark Bracher -- Social justice : a philosophical introduction / Nick T. C. Lu & Hue Woodson -- The solitary reader and the general strike : literature, praxis, and utopia / Andrew David King -- Feminism and social justice : translating private problems into public problems / Robin Truth Goodman -- Marxist theory / Peter Hudis -- Disabled diaspora : transnational models of disability justice / Anna Hinton -- Critical race theory : a theoretical overview / Aja Y. Martinez -- Ecocriticism : from the wilderness idea to just multispecies futures / Delia Byrnes -- Postcolonial theory : a theoretical overview / Hella Bloom Cohen -- Bringing theory home : decoloniality and the global south / Antonette Talaue Arogo -- Queer theory : a brief history and its contemporary influences around the world / Lou Rich -- A short history of liberation theology : from Latin America to the United States, Palestine, and India, 1968-1989 / Hue Woodson -- Life among the lowly : the African American struggle to make a home in America / Kavon Franklin -- W. E. B. Du Bois, James Cone, and the Black Christ : the history and legacy of Black liberation theology / Kevin Pyon -- "To be on fire for justice" : James Cone's legacy and Cornel West's prophetic commitments to liberational-theological social justice / Hue Woodson -- Navigating the gaze : the gaze, double-consciousness, and the politics of passing in Nella Larsen's Passing / Emily Fontenot -- Black futurities beyond the human in Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts / Kristen Reynolds -- From politics to ethical aesthetics : literary peace activism, social emotions and poetic justice in Australian minorities fiction / Jean-Francois Vernay -- Challenging racial and religious stereotypes through literature / Nisreen Yamany -- Examining students' critical-ethical interruptions of racial discourse in Singapore Literature classrooms / Nah Dominic & Suzanne Choo -- Trans youth movements / Eli Erlick -- Making sense of the disability autonomy and collective binary : a review of Informal Disability Justice Pedagogy (IDJP) across cultures / Sona Kazemi & Hermachandran Karah -- "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 -- Postcolonial feminism : women's digital activism and its challenges in South Asia with a focus on Pakistan / Naila Sahar -- Re-defining Dalit Female identity : a case study of Dalit feminist movement and Dalit women's writings / Rashmi Attri & Neha Arora -- "World"-traveling in the classroom as an enactment of critical pedagogies / Julia Reade -- Teaching literature as equipment for living democratically / Ryan Skinnell -- Challenging the vox populi : the crowdsourced poetics of Hong Kong's anti-extradition law protest / Wayne CF Yeung -- Politics of blasphemy, religiosity, and digitality in Pakistan / Iqra Cheema -- "Without inspection" and the poetics of abolition / Ryan Augutyniak -- Romania's "white revolution" : a case study on social movements for civil rights and democracy in Eastern Europe / Cringuta Irina Pelea -- Happiness, social justice, and the Bildungsroman : on the postcolonial biopolitics of waiting for happiness / Jefferey R. Di Leo -- 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 -- To read for suffering : using the film Burn! to challenge imperialism / Alexander C. Ruhsenberger -- Speak up and dance : the convergence of Palestinian and African/Black struggles in Afrodabke / Ha Dong -- The 1947 partition archive : A contemporary pedagogical resources to teach the rival history of the partition of India / Pryanka Bisht & Merlyn Sharma -- Artificial beings, servitude and rights : Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun / Parmond K. Nayar -- Toward an oceanic Taiwanese imagery : Syaman Rapongan's sea writing and Liao Hongji's cetacean narrative / Pei-yin Lin -- The standing rock water protectors : Indigenous sovereignty as a refutation to extractive settler colonialism / Jeff Gessas -- Teaching climate change under capitalist realism / Claire Ravenscroft.
ISBN
  • 9781003246428
  • 1003246427
  • 9781000991093
  • 1000991091
  • 9781000991031
  • 1000991032
LCCN
  • 2023023323
  • 10.4324/9781003246428
OCLC
2023023323
Title
The Routledge companion to literature and social justice / edited by Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick T. C. Lu.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Routledge literature companions
Routledge companions to literature series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Biography
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.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2023).
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Added Author
Raja, Masood A., 1965- editor.
Lu, Nick T. C., 1983- editor.
Taylor & Francis
Other Form:
Print version: Routledge companion to literature and social justice Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024 9781032159423 (DLC) 2023023322
Other Standard Identifier
10.4324/9781003246428 doi
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