1st Edition
Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity
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
Biography
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.
"This book breaks new intellectual ground in questioning notions of recognition based on either status or identity, in showing how literature can enhance and complicate existing notions of recognition, and in developing new concepts such as ‘empty recognition’ and in challenging existing ideas about the relation between recognition and redistribution. No other scholar, to my knowledge, has developed such a substantial account of the relations between recognition in literature and in the social sciences. It is a major contribution to scholarship that will certainly shape my own future thinking about recognition."
-Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA.
