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Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature
Brings together scholars and practitioners to present
an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth
literature.
For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its
role in systemic racism and oppression. In this landmark edited
volume, Marilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra
Rodríguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color
scholars and practitioners to make a case for ethnic studies as
a path for pursuing racial justice in the field. Ethnic
studies, they argue, demands that we go beyond seeing race,
ethnicity, culture, and diversity as questions of identity and
difference. Instead, it shows us how marginalized
positionalities create epistemologies that shape our
understanding of age, craft, genre, and knowledge production.
Multidisciplinary and intersectional in its approach,
Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature analyzes US
imperialism through the lens of youth literature and vice
versa, shedding light on the roots of our current culture wars
and curriculum battles.
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The Idea of justice in literature
The theme arises from the legal-academic movement \"Law and Literature\". This newly developed field should aim at two major goals, first, to investigate the meaning of law in a social context by questioning how the characters appearing in literary works understand and behave themselves to the law (law in literature), and second, to find out a theoretical solution of the methodological question whether and to what extent the legal text can be interpreted objectively in comparison with the question how literary works should be interpreted (law as literature). The subject of justice and injustice has been covered not only in treatises of law and philosophy, but also in many works of literature: On the one hand, poets and writers have been outraged at the social conditions of their time. On the other hand, some of them have also contributed fundamental reflections on the idea of justice itself.
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Communal justice in Shakespeare's England : drama, law, and emotion
The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama. Relentless professionalization of the common law set off a cascade of lawyerly self-fashioning – resulting in blunt attacks on lay judgment. English playwrights, including Shakespeare, resisted the forces of legal professionalization by casting legal expertise as a detriment to moral feeling. They celebrated the ability of individuals, guided by conscience and working alongside members of their community, to restore justice. Playwrights used the participatory nature of drama to deepen public understanding of and respect for communal justice. In plays such as King Lear and Macbeth , lay people accomplish the work of magistracy: conscience structures legal judgment, neighbourly care shapes the coroner’s inquest, and communal emotions give meaning to confession and repentance.
An original and deeply sourced study of early modern literature and law, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England contributes to a growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of how drama creates and sustains community. Penelope Geng brings together a wealth of imaginative and documentary archives – including plays, sermons, conscience literature, Protestant hagiographies, legal manuals, and medieval and early modern chronicles – proving that literature never simply reacts to legal events but always actively invents legal questions, establishes legal expectations, and shapes legal norms.
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Fugitives, smugglers, and thieves : piracy and personhood in American literature
\"In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to post-revolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fictions of Dignity
Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. InFictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights.
Each of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie'sMidnight's Childrenaddresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi'sWoman at Point Zerotakes up controversies over women's freedoms in Islamic society. InDisgrace, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And inThe God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions.
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Howling for justice : new perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
\"This book is a collection of essays by international scholars celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Silko's novel, Almanac of the Dead, and addressing those ongoing demands for justice. It offers new responses to Almanac's sociocultural, historical, and political contexts, and includes a new interview with Silko in which she reflects on the twenty years since the novel's publication\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hunting for Justice
Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.
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Abolition Time
How Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions
and redefine literary scholarship Abolition Time
is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through
literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory,
critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation
with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A.
Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral
epistemologies embedded in language and poetics.
Goldberg examines poetry, drama, and novels from the nineteenth
century through the twenty-first-such as William Wells Brown's
The Escape, Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel, Toni
Morrison's A Mercy, and Claudia Rankine's
Citizen -to consider literature and literary scholarship's
roles in shaping societal paradigms. Focusing on how Black Atlantic
literature disrupts the grammar of law and order, they show how
these texts propose nonlinear theories of time that imagine a queer
relationality characterized by care rather than inheritance,
property, or biology.
Abolition Time offers a framework for thinking
critically about what is meant by the term justice in the
broadest and deepest sense, using close reading to inform the
question of abolishing prisons or the police and to think seriously
about the most fundamental questions at the heart of the
abolitionist movement.
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