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Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using literature to expose and critique this violence and domination for half a century. But the continued potency of #MeToo after its 2017 explosion adds new urgency and wider awareness about these issues, while revealing new ways in which rape culture shapes our everyday lives. This intersectional guide helps readers, students, teachers, and scholars face and challenge our culture of sexual violence by confronting it through the study of literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies gathers essays on literature from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado, by academics working across the United States and around the world, who offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence. It also examines the promise and limitations of the #MeToo movement itself, speaking to the productive use of social media as well as to the voices that the movement has so far muted. In uniting diverse voices to enable the #MeToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is also committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world.

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Author:   Dr. Mary K. Holland (Professor of English, The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA) ,  Professor or Dr. Heather Hewett (Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9781501372742

ISBN 10:   1501372742
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   02 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Literary Studies as Literary Activism Heather Hewett and Mary K. Holland, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA Part 1: Critical Practices 1. “Dismissed, trivialized, misread”: Re-Examining the Reception of Women’s Literature through the #MeToo Movement Janet Badia, Purdue University, USA 2. Reading Survivor Narratives: Literary Criticism as Feminist Solidarity Tanya Serisier, Birbeck College, University of London, UK 3. Evoking the Specter of White Feminism in the #MeToo Movement: Publishing Memoirs and the Cultural Memory of American Feminism Amanda Spallaci, University of Alberta, Canada 4. Pricing Black Girl Pain: The Cost of Black Girlhood in Street Lit Jacinta R. Saffold, University of New Orleans, USA 5. From #MMIW to #NotInvisible: Indigenous Women in the #MeToo Era Kasey Jones-Matrona, University of Oklahoma, USA 6. Credibility and Doubt in the Age of #MeToo Namrata Mitra and Katherine Connor, Iona College, USA 7.Quite Possibly the Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace Mary K. Holland, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA Part 2: Re-readings 8. Philomela's Tapestry and #MeToo: Reading Ovid in an Indian Feminist Classroom Aditi Joshi, Anushka Srivastava, Katyayani, Mahwash Akhter, Prasanta Bani Ekka, Shivangi Tiwary, Shweta, and Zahanat, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India 9. “Be wary of the delusions of fancy!”: Silencing and Rape Culture in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette Hannah Herndon, Tufts University, USA 10. “Fearful of being pursued, yet determined to persevere”: Northanger Abbey and the #MeToo Movement Douglas Murray, Belmont University, USA 11. The Limits of #MeToo in India: Rereading Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Deepa Mehta’s Earth Nidhi Shrivastava, University of Western Ontario, Canada 12. Intimate Violence and Sexual Assault in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut: Carving Spaces of Feminist Liberation in Post-Apartheid South African Literature Nafeesa T. Nichols, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway 13.The Other Men of #MeToo: Male Rape in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, Sapphire’s The Kid, and Amber Tamblyn’s Any Man Robin E. Field, King’s College, Pennsylvania, USA 14. Reading Junot Díaz after Me Too and #MeToo Ann Marie Alfonso Short, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, USA Part 3: Pedagogy Practices and Methods 15. Beyond Safe Spaces: Working Towards Access and Accountability Using Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Maureen McDonnell, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA 16. Trigger Warnings: An Ethics for Tutoring #MeToo Content and Rape Narratives in Writing Centers Beth Walker, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA 17. From Sympathy to Detoxification: Pedagogical Approaches for Dismantling Rape Culture Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, USA 18. Theorizing “Toxic” Masculinity across Cultures and Nations: The Case of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA 19. “I said nothing”: Teaching Corregidora and Black Women’s Relationship to Consent Carlyn Ferrari, Seattle University, USA 20. “Teach as if you aren’t afraid of getting fired”: A Queer Survivor’s Use of Restorative Justice Circles to Embrace Vulnerability in the Classroom Sarah Goldbort, University at Buffalo, USA 21. Praxis of Empowerment: Latina Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls Roberta Hurtado, State University of New York, Oswego, USA Classroom Contexts 22. Teaching the #MeToo Memoir: Creating Empathy in the First-Year College Classroom Elif S. Armbruster, Suffolk University, USA 23. Teaching Courtly Love in the Medieval Classroom: Desire, Consent, and the #MeToo Movement Sara V. Torres, University of Virginia, USA, and Rebecca F. McNamara, Westmont College, USA 24. Centering Black Women in the Classroom: Teaching Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl after #MeToo Linda Chavers, Harvard University, USA 25. Lessons in Credibility and Complicity in Two Modern Dramas Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA 26. An Impulse Toward Agency: Teaching Scenes of Sexual Violence in Afro-Latina/o/x Literature Ethan Madarieta, Syracuse University, USA 27. New Approaches to Short Fiction and Nonfiction in the Classroom: Challenging Violence from Queer and Straight Perspectives Zoë Brigley Thompson, The Ohio State University, USA 28. Recruiting Warriors: Using Literature in College Classrooms to Fight and Win “The Longest War” Candice Pipes, United States Air Force, USA Notes on Contributors Index

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#MeToo is a powerful hashtag, rallying cry, and cudgel. But lasting change requires association, deep thinking, and nuance-and for that, we turn to literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies beautifully demonstrates how writers have been describing the realities of sexual violence for decades, and how literary analysis can help provoke meaningful transformation of rape culture. * Jennifer Baumgardner, director of It Was Rape and co-author of Manifesta * This collection of timely, wide-ranging, and diverse essays demonstrates the power of #MeToo to reframe prior debates and silences in literary studies. The editors make a compelling case for #MeToo storytelling as part of a long history of representing sexual violence in literature. The essays interweave literary studies, social activism, and pedagogy in generative new readings. #MeToo and Literary Studies is essential reading and invaluable equipment for scholars, teachers, and students engaging with rape culture, misogyny, and literature. * Leigh Gilmore, Visiting Professor of English, The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives * The essays in this exciting collection by a diverse group of feminist scholars make the case that the study of literature is also a performance of activism. #MeToo and Literary Studies maps representations of rape culture across geographies both local and global, and wide-ranging texts from communities subjected to sexual violence. The book persuasively demonstrates how literature freshly analyzed through critically engaged writing and innovative pedagogies can lead to radical social change. A crucial anthology for our dark times. * Nancy K. Miller, author of My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism * Fighting rape culture starts with making it visible. #Metoo and Literary Studies does that and so much more. It uses literature to expose the cultural normalization of sexual violence and finds in pedagogy the building blocks necessary to produce a viable alternative. It is scholarly activism at its best. * Carine Mardorossian, Professor of English and Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo, NY, USA * Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett's #MeToo and Literary Studies is a tour de force, a groundbreaking gathering of feminist scholars who have committed themselves to exposing, contextualizing, and challenging the ongoing trauma of sexual violence in popular culture and literature. Spanning antiquity to our current age, this book maps how artists, activists, and academics have both grappled with the devastating reality of sexual assault, while also imagining beyond the trauma and giving us a collective way forward. #MeToo and Literary Studies is an urgent, transformative, and mandatory read. * Salamishah Tillet, author of In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece and Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University, Newark, USA * #MeToo and Literary Studies provides a crucial, fascinating, and truly comprehensive deep dive into the vexed relationship between rape culture and literary texts spanning over two thousand years, from Ovid to Jaquira Diaz. The breadth of perspectives canvassed-and interrogated-makes it a breathtaking feat, and a highly necessary volume, for any feminist thinker. * Kate Manne, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA, and author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (2020) * #MeToo and Literary Studies seriously belongs in every English department in middle schools, high schools, and in higher education. But it should not just sit on a shelf. It should be read and discussed by English teachers in department meetings across the school year and every year. There are so many excellent entry points that the various authors in this collection offer from critical analyses of texts we actually teach in the classroom to suggestions of texts we should start including in our curricula; they offer pedagogical approaches for addressing content warnings to masculinities across cultures to restorative justice; they even offer ways we can prevent inflicting further harm in our reading and writing pedagogies. Wholly committed to intersectionality and dismantling systems of domination and power, each chapter offers starting points for addressing sexual violence, rape, and harassment in not only literature but also in our our schools, universities, and communities. As a high school English teacher who has been in the classroom for nearly 25 years addressing sexual violence both pedagogically and institutionally, I wish I had had this book much sooner in my work as a feminist teacher-activist. I can keep fighting the good fight now that this book exists. * Ileana Jimenez, founder of Feminist Teacher, @feministteacher *

#MeToo is a powerful hashtag, rallying cry, and cudgel. But lasting change requires association, deep thinking, and nuance-and for that, we turn to literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies beautifully demonstrates how writers have been describing the realities of sexual violence for decades, and how literary analysis can help provoke meaningful transformation of rape culture. * Jennifer Baumgardner, director of It Was Rape and co-author of Manifesta *

#MeToo is a powerful hashtag, rallying cry, and cudgel. But lasting change requires association, deep thinking, and nuance-and for that, we turn to literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies beautifully demonstrates how writers have been describing the realities of sexual violence for decades, and how literary analysis can help provoke meaningful transformation of rape culture. * Jennifer Baumgardner, director of It Was Rape and co-author of Manifesta * This collection of timely, wide-ranging, and diverse essays demonstrates the power of #MeToo to reframe prior debates and silences in literary studies. The editors make a compelling case for #MeToo storytelling as part of a long history of representing sexual violence in literature. The essays interweave literary studies, social activism, and pedagogy in generative new readings. #MeToo and Literary Studies is essential reading and invaluable equipment for scholars, teachers, and students engaging with rape culture, misogyny, and literature. * Leigh Gilmore, Visiting Professor of English, The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives * The essays in this exciting collection by a diverse group of feminist scholars make the case that the study of literature is also a performance of activism. #MeToo and Literary Studies maps representations of rape culture across geographies both local and global, and wide-ranging texts from communities subjected to sexual violence. The book persuasively demonstrates how literature freshly analyzed through critically engaged writing and innovative pedagogies can lead to radical social change. A crucial anthology for our dark times. * Nancy K. Miller, author of My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism * Fighting rape culture starts with making it visible. #Metoo and Literary Studies does that and so much more. It uses literature to expose the cultural normalization of sexual violence and finds in pedagogy the building blocks necessary to produce a viable alternative. It is scholarly activism at its best. * Carine Mardorossian, Professor of English and Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo, NY, USA *

Author Information

Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. She is the author of The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Succeeding Postmodernism (Bloomsbury, 2013), and co-editor, with Stephen J. Burn, of Approaches to Teaching David Foster Wallace (2019). Heather Hewett is Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an affiliate of the English Department at The State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. Her work on feminism, gender, and contemporary literature has been published in scholarly journals and edited collections as well as mainstream and literary publications.

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