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

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

First edition.

9780292747784 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0292747780 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781477302095
1477302093

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.

English

xiv, 334 pages ; 24 cm.

810.9353 B796l 2013

(OCoLC)813568156
(OCoLC)813568156

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.

Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series.

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