1st Edition
Literature, Activism and Transformative Learning
Introduction: Literature, Activism and Transformative Learning
Goutam Karmakar
1. Literary Activism and Afrofuturist Genealogies in Multi-Authored Fiction
Megan E. Fourqurean
2. Plachimada Struggle and the Environmentalism of the Poor: (In)justice and Activism in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior
Goutam Karmakar
3. The Facts of Reconciliation: Fictions of Truth in the South African TRC
Deb Doing
4. Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise
Yunusy Castory Ng’umbi
5. Graphic Activism and Epistemic Justice in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Shreya Sharma and Payel Pal
6. Kerima Tariman Translates the Revolution: Guerrilla Warfare, Cultural Work, and Radical Literature
Charlie Samuya Veric
7. ‘Marvel at Your Being Part of This Splendour': Sindiwe Magona’s Social-Ecological Consciousness
Thomas Jeffery
8. The Literary Space of Black Women: Trauma, Memory, and Literary Activism in Selected Works of Koleka Putuma
Shun Man Emily Chow-Quesada
9. Memory, Resilience and Ecocentrism in shalan joudry’s Generations Re-merging
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
10. Values in South African Gujarati Literature
Mrunal Chavda
Biography
Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, cultural studies and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.
