Concept information
Preferred term
literature and activism
Definition
- Literature has long played a significant role in social justice activism, in part because it gives voice to the political positions of marginalized groups, and because it can break traditional literary form so that we learn to read and make meaning in new ways. Literature has the power to move people, to create empathy, and to give readers insights into experiences different from their own. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Literature and Activism]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Adrienne Rich
- Albert Camus
- Alice Walker
- Allen Ginsberg
- Amiri Baraka
- Ariel Dorfman
- Arthur Miller
- Ayn Rand
- Beat poets
- Charles Dickens
- Chinua Achebe
- Dennis Brutus
- Émile Zola
- Gabriel García Márquez
- George Orwell
- Gore Vidal
- Henry David Thoreau
- James Baldwin
- Langston Hughes
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Marge Piercy
- Mark Twain
- Nazim Hikmet
- Pablo Neruda
- political humor
- political satire
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Roque Dalton
- Salman Rushdie
- Sinclair Lewis
- slam poetry
- social science fiction
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- testimonio
- Toni Morrison
- Upton Sinclair
- Walt Whitman
- Wilfred Owen
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/literature_and_activism
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