Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency

Introduction. Changing the story? Epistemic shifts and creative agency

Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso

PART I On the Promise and Peril of Stories

1 Narratives, social justice, and the common good

Chielozona Eze

2 Divine justice, epistemic crisis, storytelling

Galili Shahar

3 'The notation of a silent lament': hermeneutical injustice in Judith Schalansky's An Inventory of Losses

Stephanie Galasso

PART II Uncovering Injustice

4 Representational epistemic injustice: disavowing the 'Other' Africa in the imaginative geographies of Western animation films

James Odhiambo Ogone

5 Farmers' self-representation and agency: protest music in the agitations against India's farm laws

Shambhavi Prakash

6 The postmigrant critique of the Bildungsroman and the epistemic injustice of the educational system in Deniz Ohde's Scattered Light

Kyung-Ho Cha

Part III Literary Strategies of Resistance

7 The ludic impulse: race narratives 'at play' in Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark and Zoe Wicomb's Playing in the Light

Aretha Phiri

8 Narrative pilgrimage and chiastic knowledge in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Coils of Fear and Sharon Dodua Otoo's Ada's Realm

Sarah Colvin

9 Tell the truth but tell it slant: Mo Yan's aesthetics of indirection

Shiamin Kwa