Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, cultural studies and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486

• Introduction: Literature, Activism and Transformative Learning 1. Literary Activism and Afrofuturist Genealogies in Multi-Authored Fiction 2. Plachimada Struggle and the Environmentalism of the Poor: (In)justice and Activism in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior 3. The Facts of Reconciliation: Fictions of Truth in the South African TRC 4. Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise 5. Graphic Activism and Epistemic Justice in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict 6. Kerima Tariman Translates the Revolution: Guerrilla Warfare, Cultural Work, and Radical Literature 7. ‘Marvel at Your Being Part of This Splendour': Sindiwe Magona’s Social-Ecological Consciousness 8. The Literary Space of Black Women: Trauma, Memory, and Literary Activism in Selected Works of Koleka Putuma 9. Memory, Resilience and Ecocentrism in shalan joudry’s Generations Re-merging 10. Values in South African Gujarati Literature

Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, cultural studies and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486

• Introduction: Literature, Activism and Transformative Learning 1. Literary Activism and Afrofuturist Genealogies in Multi-Authored Fiction 2. Plachimada Struggle and the Environmentalism of the Poor: (In)justice and Activism in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior 3. The Facts of Reconciliation: Fictions of Truth in the South African TRC 4. Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise 5. Graphic Activism and Epistemic Justice in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict 6. Kerima Tariman Translates the Revolution: Guerrilla Warfare, Cultural Work, and Radical Literature 7. ‘Marvel at Your Being Part of This Splendour': Sindiwe Magona’s Social-Ecological Consciousness 8. The Literary Space of Black Women: Trauma, Memory, and Literary Activism in Selected Works of Koleka Putuma 9. Memory, Resilience and Ecocentrism in shalan joudry’s Generations Re-merging 10. Values in South African Gujarati Literature

Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, cultural studies and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486

• Introduction: Literature, Activism and Transformative Learning 1. Literary Activism and Afrofuturist Genealogies in Multi-Authored Fiction 2. Plachimada Struggle and the Environmentalism of the Poor: (In)justice and Activism in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior 3. The Facts of Reconciliation: Fictions of Truth in the South African TRC 4. Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise 5. Graphic Activism and Epistemic Justice in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict 6. Kerima Tariman Translates the Revolution: Guerrilla Warfare, Cultural Work, and Radical Literature 7. ‘Marvel at Your Being Part of This Splendour': Sindiwe Magona’s Social-Ecological Consciousness 8. The Literary Space of Black Women: Trauma, Memory, and Literary Activism in Selected Works of Koleka Putuma 9. Memory, Resilience and Ecocentrism in shalan joudry’s Generations Re-merging 10. Values in South African Gujarati Literature