1st Edition

Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action Gender Response-able Labs

    216 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs examines teaching and research practices under feminist new materialisms, affect theories and response-ability through literary and visual products, and offers possible bridges between academia and activism to create feminist interventions in contemporary neoliberal structures.

    Featuring chapters from contributors across a wide range of disciplines, this book follows a methodological framework that blends traditionally opposite categories, such as theory and practice, and explores contemporary literature and films as case studies within innovative “feminist response-able labs”.

    In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action readers will encounter a collaborative trans-disciplinary toolbox which can be of use to multiple disciplines and an invaluable resource to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers and scholars in literary studies, film studies, feminist theories, new materialisms, and affective pedagogies

    List of Figures

    List of Contributors

     

    Introduction. Constructing Gender Response-ability through the Interaction of Literary and Visual Cultures

    Beatriz Revelles-Benavente and Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa

     

    Chapter 1. Fictioning Realities: the Use of Feminist Literature to Materialise the Conflict between Reality and Actuality Solving the Trap of Time

    Beatriz Revelles-Benavente and Miguel Lorente Acosta

     

    Chapter 2. Artherapy, Queer Failure and Horizontal Learning Experience in Students’ Postmemory Family Narratives

    Ángela Harris Sánchez and Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

     

    Chapter 3. Feminist Readings of Literature though the History Lens: Establishing Dialogues Past-Present in the English Classroom

    María José de la Torre Moreno and Orianna Calderón Sandoval

     

    Chapter 4. Approaching Critical Studies of Men and Masculinity from Affective Pedagogies

    Ángela Rivero Izquierdo and Elvira Aguilera García

     

    Chapter 5. Figures of Resistance: Revisiting Cinema and Poetry with Hospit(able)ness and Response-Ability

    Marina Casado Guerrero and Agostina Invernizzi

     

    Chapter 6. Becoming (other-than-) water: Resilience and Revolution in Embodying a Feminist Canon. A Diffractive Analysis of El Agua, by Elena López Riera

    Belén Cornejo Daza and Olga Fenoll Martínez

     

    Chapter 7. “Am I Making this up?”: Exploring War Trauma and the Distortion of Reality in the Poems of Colette Bryce

    Pilar Villar Argáiz and María Elena Bertos Quesada

     

    Chapter 8. Can Children’s Tales be Fair? Promoting Responsibility and Sustainability through the Rewriting and Storytelling of Tales with Undergraduate Education Students

    Verónica P. Recchioni and Abigail López Alcarria

     

    Chapter 9: New literary Communities: Fanfiction, Identity and Collaborative Writing

    María Ángeles Grande Rosales and Isabel Correal Díaz

     

    Chapter 10: To be Continued: Feminist Transnational Convergences and Research Alliances

    Adelina Sánchez Espinosa, Jasmina Lukic and Suzanne Clisby

    Biography

    Beatriz Revelles-Benavente is a Permanent Lecturer at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, University of Granada (Spain) and the UGR coordinator for the GEMMA Erasmus Mundus Master programme in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is co-editor of Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. She has also co-edited the collection Teaching Gender: Feminist Responsibility and Politics in Times of Crisis and is the author of Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: A New Materialist Methodology for Critical Thinking.

    Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Granada and Project Leader of GEMMA: Erasmus Mundus Master and Consortium in Women’s and Gender Studies; PI for the “Reception, modes and gender” Andalusian Research Group; the “Gender Responsible Lecturing Labs: Interfacing Cultural and Visual Cultures” Andalusian Research Project of Excellence; PI UGR for EUTERPE (Horizon MSCA Doctoral Network) and DIGISCREENS Horizon CHANSE project. Other research positions include Director of the UGR “Feminae” Book Series and Vice-President of the Association of Institutions for Feminist Research and Education in Europe.