Literature and Epistemic Injustice
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Taylor & Francis
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A vital resource for anyone interested in literature and politics, this is the first in-depth study of epistemic injustice as a concept for literary studies. Focusing on contemporary fiction in an age of post-truth, it shows how eight novels set in different global contexts reveal epistemic injustice as an authoritarian practice and offer an aesthetics of resistance. Epistemic injustice valorises the thinking of those in power while suppressing other people’s knowledge; it declares some people omniscient and others targets for violence. This book tracks how the novels make tangible its strategic use and effects while suggesting – in their form as well as their content – that something else is possible. Bridging political philosophy and literary analysis in clear prose, this study offers exciting new stimuli for reading groups and general readers as well as for students of literature.
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racism, sexism, discrimination, poetry, 1968 Generation, violence, humor, pleasure, subversive, time, pluralism, narrative, guerilla, non-human, We That Are Young, Taneja, novella, Theresa Washington, motherhood, gender, Chiasmus, storytelling, Synchronicity, aesthetics, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies, thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing, thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology