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100 1 $aBracher, Mark,$d1950-
245 10 $aLiterature and social justice :$bprotest novels, cognitive politics, and schema criticism /$cby Mark Bracher.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c2013.
300 $axiv, 334 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCognitive approaches to literature and culture series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-320) and index.
505 00 $tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$gPart I. The psychological basis for a cognitive poitics of social justice --$tCognitive science for a new social criticism --$gPart II. The cognitive roots of injustice : four person-schemas --$tAutonomism versus situationism : responsibility for behavior and life outcomes --$tEssentialism versus malleability : responsibility for character --$tAtomism versus solidarity : relation of self to others --$tHomogeneity versus heterogeneity : the structure of character --$gPart III. How protest novels work to replace faulty person-schemas --$tThe jungle --$tThe grapes of wrath --$tNative son --$gPart IV. A radical cognitive social criticism --$tSchema criticism : radical cognitive politics --$tNotes --$tWorks cited --$tIndex.
520 $aCan reading social protest novels actually produce a more just world? Literature and Social Justice offers a scientifically informed, evidence-based affirmative answer to that crucial question, arguing that literature has the potential--albeit largely unrealized--to produce lasting, socially transformative psychological changes in readers. Moving beyond traditional social criticism in its various forms, including feminist, gender, queer, and postcolonialist approaches, Mark Bracher uses new knowledge concerning the cognitive structures and processes that constitute the psychological roots of social injustice to develop a detailed, systematic critical strategy that he calls "schema criticism," which can be applied to literature and other discourses to maximize and extend their potential for promoting social justice. -- Publisher website.
650 0 $aProtest literature, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aJustice, Administration of, in literature.
650 0 $aSocial justice in literature.
830 0 $aCognitive approaches to literature and culture series.
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