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
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