Real Recognition

What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-07896-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover, she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations, as opposed to identity and status, for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this, she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences.

Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen.

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Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lei Pihl, Marie-Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Recognition in Political Theory

Literary Recognition

1. Racialization and Recognition

History as a Crime

A Poetic Hip-Hop Manifesto

2. Disability and Recognition

A New Outlook on Time

Sociability and Empty Recognition

3. Gender and Recognition

Gender, Motherhood and Invisible Labor

The Power to Narrate

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at The University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with The National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen.