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Author:

Bracher, Mark, 1950-

Title:

Literature and social justice : protest novels, cognitive politics, and schema criticism / by Mark Bracher.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiv, 334 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Protest literature, American--History and criticism.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Social justice in literature.
Justice, Administration of.
Literature.
Protest literature, American.
Social justice.
Roman.
Widerstand.
Protest.
Soziale Gerechtigkeit.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-320) and index.

Contents:

Index. Acknowledgments -- Part IV. A radical cognitive social criticism -- Cognitive science for a new social criticism -- Part II. The cognitive roots of injustice : four person-schemas -- Autonomism versus situationism : responsibility for behavior and life outcomes -- Essentialism versus malleability : responsibility for character -- Atomism versus solidarity : relation of self to others -- Homogeneity versus heterogeneity : the structure of character -- Part III. How protest novels work to replace faulty person-schemas -- The jungle -- The grapes of wrath -- Native son -- Part IV. A radical cognitive social criticism -- Schema criticism : radical cognitive politics -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Summary:

Can reading social protest novels actually produce a more just world? Literature and Social Justice offers a scientifically informed, evidence-based affirmative answer to that crucial question, arguing that literature has the potential--albeit largely unrealized--to produce lasting, socially transformative psychological changes in readers. Moving beyond traditional social criticism in its various forms, including feminist, gender, queer, and postcolonialist approaches, Mark Bracher uses new knowledge concerning the cognitive structures and processes that constitute the psychological roots of social injustice to develop a detailed, systematic critical strategy that he calls "schema criticism," which can be applied to literature and other discourses to maximize and extend their potential for promoting social justice. -- Publisher website.

Series:

Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series

ISBN:

0292747780 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292747784 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)813568156

LCCN:

2012042771

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)