1st Edition

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

182 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 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... Read more

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 Masculinities from Affective Pedagogies

Ángela Rivera 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 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 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.