Literature for social change: new perspectives and debates

Maravillas Moreno Amor (PhD in Arts and Humanities) holds a BA in Spanish Language and Literature, an MA in Secondary Education Teaching, and an MA in Advanced Humanities Studies. She has been a visiting researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University College Cork, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Sorbonne University. Mario Aznar is Associate Professor of Didactics of Language and Literature at the University of Murcia. He holds an International PhD in Literary Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid. His work explores the intersections between literary discourse, language theory, and contemporary narrative practices, with a particular focus on text–image relations and on the links between literary theory and literary education.

• Contents - Vicente Cervera Salinas: Prologue - Acknowledgements - Maravillas Moreno Amor and Mario Aznar: An Introduction: Social Change, Critical Pedagogy, and Displaced Narratives in Literary Research - PART I. Literature and Critical Pedagogy - Mario Aznar: "Subasta" by María Fernanda Ampuero: Gender, Social Exclusion, and Literary Canon in the University Classroom for Primary Education - Amal Conesa Erragbaoui: Democratic Education Through Literary Education: The 23-F Military Coup and Trans Lives in Una Mala Noche La Tiene Cualquiera by Eduardo Mendicutti - Part II. Bodies, Dissidence, and Queer Subjectivities - Carmen Ferreira-Boo, Marta Neira-Rodriguez, Rocío García-Pedreira: Transgender and Other Non-Heteronormative Identities in Contemporary Galician Children’s and Youth Literature (2012–2024) - César Carrasco García: The New Drift of the Camp in Pedro Lemebel - Maravillas Moreno Amor: Towards a Poststructuralist Literary Criticism of Queerness Through the Poetry of Claudia Rodríguez - Part III. Narratives of Migration and Displacement - Delmiro Rocha Álvarez: Literature in Deconstruction: A Philosophical Reading of Sophocles and the Xénos - Amy Burge: Popular Genre Fiction, Migration, and the Potential for Change - Sarah Busch: Reading Decolonial Queerness in Black British and Latin American Literature - Sara Reis da Silva, Marta Neira-Rodríguez, Rocío García-Pedreira: African Migrants in Children’s Literature: A Potential Way of Social Changing - Rosalía Ortiz Jiménez: From Prejudice to Parody: Juan Goytisolo and the Construction and Deconstruction of the Oriental Other in Western Literature - Josefa Fernández Zambudio, Irene Martínez Forte: Dialectic of Slave Men and Slave Women in Plautus - Rocío García-Pedreira, Carmen Ferreira-Boo, Marta Neira-Rodriguez: The Literary and Artistic Representation of Migration in Picturebooks - Notes on Contributors