Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency

Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency aims to open a productive new field of study, at a time when understanding the workings of injustice and possibilities for justice seems an ever more urgent project.

Auteur

Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has a DPhil, MA and BA in German from the University of Oxford, UK and held chairs at the Universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Warwick before moving to Cambridge. Her current research focuses on alternative epistemologies and literary aesthetics. Her recent book publications include Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners (2022), The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor, Routledge 2015; new ed. 2017), Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009), Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (editor, with Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, 2009). She co-directs, with Stephanie Galasso and Tara Talwar Windsor, the collaborative research project 'Cultural Production and Social Justice'.

Stephanie Galasso is the Schröder Research Associate and an Affiliated Lecturer in German at the University of Cambridge. After completing her BA in German and English at the University of California, Davis, she completed her MA and PhD in German Studies at Brown University. Her doctoral research was partially supported by a Fulbright grant to study at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on intersections between racialization and aesthetics. Her forthcoming monograph examines the role of German genre theory in normative constructions of the human. She co-directs, with Sarah Colvin and Tara Talwar Windsor, the collaborative research project 'Cultural Production and Social Justice'.

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Foundational theories of epistemic justice have tended to rely on literary narratives to support their case. But why have those narratives provided the resource that was needed? And is cultural production always supportive of epistemic justice? In Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency, leading scholars in literary, philosophical, and cultural studies articulate fresh perspectives across a range of global contexts, expanding the emerging field of epistemic injustice studies. Going beyond the well-known works of fiction, by white, Western, English-language writers that have tended to inform philosophical explorations of epistemic injustice, this collection analyses the complex relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and epistemic (in)justice; referencing texts, film, and other forms of cultural production. This volume presents, without seeking to synthesize, new perspectives on how justice and injustice are narratively and aesthetically produced. Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency aims to open a productive new field of study, at a time when understanding the workings of injustice and possibilities for justice seems an ever more urgent project.

Contenu

Introduction. *Changing the story? Epistemic shifts and creative agency

• Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso

  PART I On the Promise and Peril of Stories

1 Narratives, social justice, and the common good

Chielozona Eze

2 Divine justice, epistemic crisis, storytelling

Galili Shahar

3 'The notation of a silent lament': hermeneutical injustice in Judith Schalansky's An *Inventory of Losses

• Stephanie Galasso

  PART II Uncovering Injustice *

• 4 Representational epistemic injustice: disavowing the 'Other' Africa in the imaginative geographies of Western animation films

James Odhiambo Ogone

5 Farmers' self-representation and agency: protest music in the agitations against India's farm laws

Shambhavi Prakash

6 The postmigrant critique of the Bildungsroman and the epistemic injustice of the educational system in Deniz Ohde's *Scattered Light

• Kyung-Ho Cha

  Part III Literary Strategies of Resistance *

• 7 The ludic impulse: race narratives 'at play' in Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb's *Playing in the Light
• Aretha Phiri

8 Narrative pilgrimage and chiastic knowledge in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Coils of Fear and Sharon Dodua Otoo's Ada's Realm

Sarah Colvin

9 Tell the truth but tell it slant: Mo Yan's aesthetics of indirection

Shiamin Kwa