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28.072 - Literary Study as Transformative Practice in a Post-Truth Age

Sat, April 6, 10:25 to 11:55am, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Floor: Lower Concourse, Sheraton Hall E

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Abstract

Thirteen scholars from five different U.S. universities meet in this session to explore how students from late elementary age through adulthood engage with literature in transformative, justice-oriented ways. Posters in the form of multimodal narratives address significant issues in of our post-truth age, such as racism, sexual violence, terrorism, digitally-mediated environments, and test-driven classrooms. Each poster proposes provisional answers to these questions: 1) What justice-oriented ways of knowing/becoming/doing does literary engagement produce? 2) How does literary fiction figure into truth-telling in a post-truth era? 3) How is literature used to recognize, activate, and/or disrupt various regimes of truth?

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