Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency

Global Perspectives on Literature and Film
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-18393-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Foundational theories of epistemic justice, such as Miranda Fricker's, have cited literary narratives to support their case. But why have those narratives in particular provided the resource that was needed? And is cultural production always supportive of epistemic justice? This essay collection, written by experts in literary, philosophical, and cultural studies working in conversation with each other across a range of global contexts, expands the emerging field of epistemic injustice studies.

The essays analyze the complex relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and epistemic (in)justice, referencing texts, film, and other forms of cultural production. The authors present, without seeking to synthesize, perspectives on how justice and injustice are narratively and aesthetically produced.

This volume by no means wants to say the last word on epistemic justice and creative agency. The intention is to open out a productive new field of study, at a time when understanding the workings of injustice and possibilities for justice seems an ever more urgent project.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colvin, Sarah

Galasso, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Changing the story? Epistemic shifts and creative agency

Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso

PART I On the Promise and Peril of Stories

1 Narratives, social justice, and the common good

Chielozona Eze

2 Divine justice, epistemic crisis, storytelling

Galili Shahar

3 ‘The notation of a silent lament’: hermeneutical injustice in Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses

Stephanie Galasso

PART II Uncovering Injustice

4 Representational epistemic injustice: disavowing the ‘Other’ Africa in the imaginative geographies of Western animation films

James Odhiambo Ogone

5 Farmers’ self-representation and agency: protest music in the agitations against India’s farm laws

Shambhavi Prakash

6 The postmigrant critique of the Bildungsroman and the epistemic injustice of the educational system in Deniz Ohde’s Scattered Light

Kyung-Ho Cha

Part III Literary Strategies of Resistance

7 The ludic impulse: race narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light

Aretha Phiri

8 Narrative pilgrimage and chiastic knowledge in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Coils of Fear and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Ada’s Realm

Sarah Colvin

9 Tell the truth but tell it slant: Mo Yan’s aesthetics of indirection

Shiamin Kwa

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has a DPhil, MA, and BA in German from the University of Oxford, UK, and held chairs at the universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Warwick before moving to Cambridge. Her current research focuses on alternative epistemologies and literary aesthetics.

Stephanie Galasso is the Schröder Research Associate and an Affiliated Lecturer in German at the University of Cambridge, UK. After completing her BA in German and English at the University of California, Davis, USA, she completed her MA and PhD in German Studies at Brown University, USA. Her doctoral research was partially supported by a Fulbright grant to study at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on intersections between racialization and aesthetics.