Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice

Masood Ashraf Raja was formerly Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of North Texas, USA. His publications include Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred (2023). Nick T. C. Lu is Assistant Professor of English at Marist College, USA. His work has appeared in Research in African Literatures.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsNote to the ReadersBeyond Awareness: IntroductionPart I: Introducing Social JusticeChapter 1: Pedagogy Advancing Social Justice through the Study of Literature: Basic Pedagogical PrinciplesMark BracherChapter 2: Literary Analysis: Social Justice: A Philosophical IntroductionNick T. C. Lu and Hue WoodsonChapter 3: Praxis: The Solitary Reader and the General StrikeAndrew David KingPart II: Theoretical Interventions in Social JusticeChapter 4: Feminism and Social Justice: Translating Private Problems into Public ProblemsRobin Truth GoodmanChapter 5: Disabled Diaspora: Transnational Models of Disability JusticeAnna HintonChapter 7: Critical Race Theory: A Theoretical OverviewAja Y. MartinezChapter 8: Ecocriticism: From the Wilderness Idea to Just Multispecies FuturesDelia ByrnesChapter 9: Marxist TheoryPeter HudisChapter 10: Postcolonial Theory: A Theoretical OverviewHella Bloom CohenChapter 11: Bringing Theory Home: Decoloniality and the Global SouthAntonette Talaue-ArogoChapter 12: A Short History of Liberation Theology: From Latin America to the United States, Palestine, and India, 1968-1989Hue WoodsonPart III: Social Justice and AntiracismChapter 13: Praxis: Life Among the Lowly: The African American Struggle to Make a Home in AmericaKavon FranklinChapter 14: Literary Analysis: W. E. B. Du Bios, James Cone, and the Black Christ: The History and Legacy of Black Liberation TheologyKevin PyonChapter 15: Literary Analysis: "To Be on Fire for Justice": James Cone’s Legacy and Cornel West’s Prophetic Commitments to Liberational-Theological Social JusticeHue WoodsonChapter 16: Literary Analysis: Navigating the Gaze: The Gaze, Double-Consciousness, and the Politics of Passing in Nella Larsen’s PassingEmily FontenotChapter 17: Literary Analysis: Black Futurities Beyond the Human in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of GhostsKristen ReynoldsChapter 18: Literary Analysis: From Politics to Ethical Aesthetics: Literary Peace Activism, Social Emotions and Poetic Justice in Australian Minorities FictionJean-Francois VernayChapter 19: Pedagogy: Challenging Racial and Religious Stereotypes through Literature Nisreen YamanyChapter 20: Pedagogy: Examining Students’ Critical-Ethical Interruptions of Racial Discourse in Singapore Literature ClassroomsNah Dominic and Suzanne ChooPart IV: Social Justice for Diverse BodymindsChapter 21: Praxis: Trans Youth MovementsEli ErlickChapter 22: Praxis: Making Sense of the Disability Autonomy and Collectivity Binary: A Review of Informal Disability Justice Pedagogy (IDJP) across CulturesSona Kazemi and Hemachandran KarahChapter 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 SowerJennifer ChoChapter 24: Praxis: Postcolonial Feminism: Women’s Digital Activism and Its Challenges in South Asia with a Focus on PakistanNaila SaharChapter 25: Literary Analysis: Re-Defining Dalit Female Identity: A Case Study of Dalit Feminist Movement and Dalit Women’s WritingsRashmi Attri and Neha AroraChapter 26: Pedagogy: "World"-Traveling in the Classroom as an Enactment of Critical PedagogiesJulia ReadePart V: Social Justice and DemocracyChapter 27: Pedagogy: Teaching Literature as Equipment for Living DemocraticallyRyan SkinnellChapter 28: Literary Analysis: Collaging the Vox Populi: The Crowdsourced Poetics of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law ProtestWayne CF YeungChapter 29: Literary Analysis: Blasphemy, Religiosity, and Digitality: An Enchanted PakistanIqra CheemaChapter 30: Literary Analysis: "Without Inspection" and the Poetics of AbolitionRyan AugustyniakChapter 31: Praxis: Romania’s "White Revolution": A Case Study on Social Movements for Civil Rights and Democracy in Eastern EuropeCringuta Irina PeleaPart VI: Global Justice and Anti-Imperialism Chapter 32: Literary Analysis: Happiness, Social Justice, and the Bildungsroman: On the Postcolonial Biopolitics of Waiting for HappinessJefferey R. Di LeoChapter 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. LuChapter 34: Literary Analysis: To Read for Suffering: Using the Film Burn! To Challenge Imperialism Alexander C. RuhsenbergerChapter 35: Speak Up and Dance: The Convergence of Palestinian and African/Black Struggles in AfrodabkeHa DongChapter 36: Pedagogy: The 1947 Partition Archive: A Contemporary Pedagogical Resources to Teach the Rival History of the Partition of IndiaPriyanka Bisht and Merlyn SharmaPart VII: Future Justice for a World More Than HumanChapter 37: Literary Analysis: Artificial Beings, Servitude and Rights: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the SunPramod K. NayarChapter 38: Literary Analysis: Toward an Oceanic Taiwanese Imagery: Syaman Rapongan’s Sea Writing and Liao Hongji’s Cetacean NarrativePei-yin LinChapter 39: Praxis: The Standing Rock Water Protectors: Indigenous Sovereignty as a Refutation to Extractive Settler ColonialismJeff GessasChapter 40: Pedagogy: Teaching Climate Change under Capitalist RealismClaire RavenscroftIndex