#metoo and literary studies : reading, writing, and teaching about sexual.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury, 2021.

Summary:

"Literature has always been 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 of 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, that offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence, including rereading and revaluing the work of male writers. 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 #MetToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is also a commitment to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

14.The Other Men of #MeToo: Male Rape in Sapphire's The Kid , Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life , and Amber Tamblyn's Any Man Robin E. Field, King's College, Pennsylvania, USA

15. Reading Junot Díaz after #MeToo Ann Marie Alfonso Short, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, USA

Part 3: Pedagogy Practices and Methods 16. Interpersonal Violence and Misogyny's Harm in the College Classroom Maureen McDonnell, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA 17. Trigger Warnings: An Ethics for Tutoring #MeToo Content and Rape Narratives in Writing Centers Beth Walker, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA 18. From Sympathy to "Sissification": Pedagogical Approaches for Dismantling Sexual Violence Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, USA 19. 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 20. "I said nothing": Teaching Corregidora and Black Women's Relationship to Consent Carlyn Ferrari, Adelphi University, USA

21. When Does the "Personal is Political" become too Personal?: Restorative Justice Circles & Ethically Teaching Rape Culture Sarah Goldbort, University at Buffalo, USA 22. Praxis of Empowerment: Latina Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and Jaquira Díaz's Ordinary Girl Rosie Hurtado, State University of New York, Oswego, USA Classroom Contexts 23. Teaching the #MeToo Memoir: Creating Empathy in the First-Year College Classroom Elif S. Armbruster, Suffolk University, USA 24. Teaching "Love" in the Medieval Classroom: Desire, Consent, and the #MeToo Movement Sara V. Torres, University of Virginia, and Rebecca F. McNamara, Westmont College, USA 25. Teaching History as Discovery: Reading Slave Narratives in the Era of #MeToo Linda Chavers, Harvard University, USA

26. Lessons in Credibility and Complicity in Three Modern Dramas Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA 27. New Approaches to Queer and Straight Violence in the Classroom: Short Fiction and Nonfiction Zo ︠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 29. Reading and Teaching Latina #MeToo Literature Belinda Linn Rincón, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA Index.

Introduction: Literary Studies as Literary Activism Heather Hewett and Mary K. Holland, State University of New York, New Paltz 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. Evoking the Specter of White Feminism throughout the #MeToo Movement: Publishing Memoirs and the Cultural Memory of American Feminism Amanda Spallaci, University of Alberta, Canada

3. Reading Survivor Narratives: Literary Criticism and Feminist Ethics Tanya Serisier, Birbeck College, University of London, UK

4. From #MMIW to #NotInvisible: Indigenous Women in the #MeToo Era Kasey Jones-Matrona, University of Oklahoma, USA

5. Witnessing and Testimony in the Age of the #MeToo Movement: The Online Politics of Self Representation Hľn̈e Bigras-Dutrisac, University of Western Ontario, Canada

6. Credibility and Doubt in Representations of Anger and Desire 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. Reading Ovid in the Age of #MeToo in an Indian Feminist Classroom Aditi Joshi, Anushka Srivastava, Ishita Prasher, Katyayani, Mahwash Akhter, Prasanta Bani Ekka, Shubhangi Chaudhary, 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. "She could not repent her resistance": Northanger Abbey and the #MeToo Movement Doug Murray, Belmont University, USA

11. A Feminist Re-Reading of Kathy Acker with My Students Nicole McCleese, Michigan State University, USA 12. The limits of #MeToo in India: Rereading Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India (1991) and Deepa Mehta's 1947 Earth (1999) Nidhi Shrivastava, Western University, London, Canada 13. Intimate Violence and Sexual Assault in Kopano Matlwa's Coconut Nafeesa T. Nichols, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501372773

1501372777

9781501372759

1501372750

9781501372766

1501372769

OCLC:

1238133831