Narrative for Social Justice

Host Gretchen Busl talks with best-selling author Betsy Cornwell about using storytelling to make material change in the world. Betsy is currently working to establish a childcare inclusive arts retreat for single mothers at the Old Knitting Factory in Connemara, Ireland, aiming to answer the question "Can telling a story create the story?"

Learn more about Betsy's efforts at The Old Knitting Factory 

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Check out Betsy’s YA fantasy books (Tides, Mechanica, Venturess, The Forest Queen, The Circus Rose) on her webpage 

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Host Torsa Ghosal talks to Neelofer Qadir about how literary scholars shaping the interdisciplinary field of Indian Ocean Studies today can address the insidiousness of colonialism, capitalism, slavery and oppressive structures of power in postcolonial nation-states.

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Welcome to our first “hot take,” a quick bonus episode where we discuss a narrative that’s currently getting attention from the press or the public! Hosts Angela Du, Torsa Ghosal, Chiara Pellegrini, and Gretchen Busl give our take on Netflix’s new six-part series, The Chair.

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Host Gretchen Busl talks with Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, associate professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies, about scholar activism, the racial and gender politics of public memory, and social justice pedagogy through the lens of their NEH-funded project "Quakertown Stories." 

Connect with Danielle at www.daniellephillips-cunningham.com

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Episode Bibliography

Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T. Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers. Rutgers University Press, 2019.

Host Chiara Pellegrini talks with Nerea Eizagirre about space, identity, movement, and how narratives can help to focus on the humanity of every body. 

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Episode Bibliography

Mikhail Bakhtin, ‘Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel’, in The Dialogic Imagination. University of Texas Press, 1982.

Paul Ilie, Literature and the Inner Exile: Authoritarian Spain, 1939-1975: Authoritarian Spain, 1939-78. The John Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Doreen Massey

Teresa del Valle

Maria Rodó de Zarate

Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism. semiotext(e), 2010.

Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2019.

Host Angela Du and special guests Jennifer Ho and Joey S. Kim discuss narratives of race and racism affecting Asian North Americans, especially Asian Americans. They reflect on the history of various terms, solidarities with other minority groups, public-facing scholarship, hazing graduate students, and texts that they love — including Joey’s first book of poems, Body Facts (2021).

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Episode Bibliography

Jennifer Ho and Jenny Heijun Wills, editors. Teaching Approaches to Asian North American Literature (forthcoming).

Cathy Park Hong. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Penguin Random House, 2020.

Joey S. Kim. Body Facts. Diode Editions, 2021.

Maxine Hong Kingson. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. Vintage, 1976.

Min Jin Lee. Panchinko. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

Lisa Lowe. The Intimacies of Four Continents. Duke UP, 2010.

Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Committed. Grove P, 2021.

---. The Sympathizer. Grove P, 2015.

Michael Omi and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States. 3rd edition. Routledge, 2014. [first published in 1986]

Craig Santos Perez. Habitat Threshold. Omnidawn, 2020.

Edward W. Said. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1078.

Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989.

Beverley Daniel Tatum. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. 3rd edition. Basic Books, 2017.

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40.

Ocean Vuong. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Penguin P, 2019.

Charles Yu. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.

Jennifer Ho and Shawn O’Neal. Anti Racism I, Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1

Jennifer Ho and Shawn O’Neal. Anti Racism II, Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-2

Canadian residential schools

If you’re looking for organizations to support, consider donating to these and visiting their websites for more information:

The Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Legacy of Hope

Reconciliation Canada

The National Residential School Crisis Line offers 24-hour support to former residential school students at the number 1 866 925 4419. So does the Hope for Wellness Help Line at the number 1 855 242 3310 and the chat line.

Hosts Torsa Ghosal, Carolin Gebauer, and Gretchen Busl pick up the conversation from the previous episode. They reflect on ‘social justice’ as a concept, framework, adjective, and practice and discuss how narrative research and pedagogy can engage with questions related to social justice.

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Episode bibliography:

Nadeem Aslam. Maps for Lost Lovers. London: Faber & Faber, 2004.

Serge Doubrovsky. Fils: Roman. Place: Éditions Galilée, 1977.

Audre Lorde. Zami, a new spelling of my name. Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1982.

Ulla Rahbek. British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Hosts Angela Du and Chiara Pellegrini and Narrative for Social Justice Initiative organizer Cody Mejeur discuss what the elusive term ‘social justice’ means to them, reflect on the critical hope that comes with doing narrative for social justice, and encourage narrative studies and “narrative” itself to open up to more disciplines, audiences, and students.

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Episode bibliography:

Adrienne Shaw. ‘The Trouble with Community’. In B. Ruberg and A. Shaw (Eds.), Queer Game Studies, pp. 153-162. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

José Esteban Muñoz. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. NYU Press, 2009.

Susan S. Lanser. Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice. Cornell University Press, 1992.

Carolyn Betensky. ‘Casual Racism in Victorian Literature’. In Victorian Literature and Culture, vol.47, no.4, 2019, pp. 723-751.

Jennifer DeVere Brody. Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture. Duke University Press, 1998.

Sandy Stone. ‘The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto’. Camera Obscura, vol. 10, no. 2, 1992, pp. 151-172.

Jay Prosser. Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. Columbia University Press, 1998.

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