Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice
Literature and Epistemic Injustice: Power and Resistance in the Contemporary Novel
1st Edition
By Sarah Colvin
November 12, 2025
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 ...
The Rights War in Literature and Culture: From Literary Humanitarianism to Savior Victimism
1st Edition
By Jennifer Rickel
July 30, 2025
Rights War tracks how the human rights framework is weaponized against the oppressed, and it makes the case for the central place of literature in understanding this seizure of narrative control. While literary humanitarianism depoliticizes suffering and positions the reader as a savior to ...
Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing
1st Edition
By Suzanne Scafe
July 17, 2025
This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the potential of this fiction to intervene into discourses that shape the worlds in which it is situated. Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women's Writing undertakes a close, ...
Contemporary Refugee Literature: Syria and Beyond
1st Edition
By Sercan Hamza Bağlama
June 29, 2025
In the twenty-first century, millions have been forcibly displaced due to ethno-religious conflicts, socio-political instability, and economic crises, turning migration into a global phenomenon. The traumatic realities of refugees – imprisonment, torture, loss, discrimination, and marginalisation –...
Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized
1st Edition
By Navleen Multani
January 30, 2025
Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts, politics of literature and culture. The book proffers ruminations on the pivotal role of constructive and positive resistance to reconstruct ...
Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Yiru Lim, Kit Ying Lye
December 24, 2024
This collection casts the spotlight on Asia and its place in global studies on trauma to explore the ways in which violence and trauma are (re)enacted, (re)presented, (re)imagined, reconciled, and consumed through various mediums in the region. The discussions revolve around the ethics of ...
The Persistence of Racialization: Literature, Gender, and Ethnicity
1st Edition
By Luz Angélica Kirschner
October 18, 2024
The Persistence of Racialization: Literature, Gender, and Ethnicity represents an attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and established during the conquest of the Americas and their current relevance for literary criticism of ethnic writing, also known as minority ...
(In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Culture, and Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger, Pere Gifra-Adroher
October 17, 2024
This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx in the United States. It underscores those “stranger others” against whom nativist fear and state violence are directed: undocumented migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Critical ...