The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative: Promoting Positive Change
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Narrative plays a central role for individual and collective lives - this insight has arguably only grown at a time of multiple social and cultural challenges in the 21st century. The present volume aims to actualize and further substantiate the case for literature and narrative, taking inspiration from Vera Nünning's eminent scholarship over the past decades. Engaging with her formative interdisciplinary work, the volume seeks to explore potentials of change through the transformative power of literature and narrative - to be harnessed by individuals and groups as agents of positive change in today's world. The book is located at the intersection of cognitive and cultural narratology and is concerned with the way literature affects individuals, how it works at an intersubjective level, enabling communication and community, and how it furthers social and cultural change. Contents Foreword Introduction I. Literature Affecting Lives at an Individual Level Haiku and Healing 1. Introduction: Literature and Narrative in/of Pandemic Times 2. Essential Work: Salutogenesis and the Value of Literature and Narrative for Life 3. Writing as Control and Coherence in Disruptive Times: The Coronavirus Essay 4. Haiku and Healing: Poetry and Miniature Stories as Pandemic Relief 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature ‘Not form which you see, but emotion which you feel’ 1. Introduction: Reading Feelings 2. Hyperempathy and Survival in Post-Apocalyptic California: Octavia Butler’s Earthseed Parables 3. Parables for Our Time? Reading Lauren Oya Olamina Today 4. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Narrating the Pandemic 1. Introducing a Paradox: Writing about Largescale Deadly Disease, Fostering Well-Being, and Health? 2. From Sociology to Literature: Reframing the Travelling Concept of ‘Salutogenesis’ for Narrative Studies 3. How ‘Storytelling’ and ‘Emplotment’ Determine our Health: Focusing on Survival and Staying Sane by Recounting Stories Seen and Heard 4. A Journal of the Plague Year as Literary Plague Prophylaxis: Simulating Pandemic Experience and Passing Down Pandemic Knowledge to New Generations 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Can Literature Heal? 1. Can Literature Heal? Between Reading and Writing 2. Why and for what do Writers write? A Typology of Motivational Purposes for Fiction Writing 3. Therapeutic Dimensions of Writing: Bibliotherapy and Beyond 4. Authors and Mental Health: Therapeutic Writing from Virginia Woolf to Amanda Gorman 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources II. Literature and Positive Change at an Intersubjective Level Reflections of ‘Togetherness’ and a Co-Narrating Community in Fictional ‘We’-Narratives 1. Introduction: A Constructive Approach to the First-Person-Plural Narration 2. A Brief Outline of Current Research on ‘We’-Narratives 3. Conceptualizing ‘We-Narratives’ as Co-Narrations 4. The Buddha in the Attic: A Communal Narrative of Co-Shared Experience 5. Shared Story Spaces: The Boat – ‘Home’ – ‘The Edges of their Towns’ – The Unknown ‘Safe Place’ 6. Two Different Cultures Co-Sharing the Discursive Space 7. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Reading Unreliable Narration 1. Unreliable Narration and Empathy 2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 3. The Remains of the Day 4. Notes on a Scandal 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Promoting Empathy in ‘Generation Me’ 1. Introduction: The Power of Literature 2. The Didactic Potential of Unreliable Narration in Conjunction with Mental Health 3. Discussing Mental Illness and Unreliability in the EFL Classroom: Pathological Narcissism in Gone Girl 4. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Renouncers, Rumours, and ‘Beyond-the-Pales’ 1. Worldmaking, Self-Making, and the ‘Dark Sides’ of Narrative 2. Social Hierarchies, Binaries, and the Repressive City 3. Strategies of Dissociation and the Fetishization of Objects 4. Language Games and the Subversion of Monolithic Truth 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources III. Narratives Promoting Social and Cultural Change Positive Change in Crime Fiction 1. Introduction: Rebuilding Crime Fiction, Tackling Social Problems 2. Progressive Gender Formations 3. Racial Diversity and Politics 4. Queering the Detective Novel: Identity as Mystery 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Maps and Narrative 1. Introduction: Perspective-Taking and Spatial Positioning 2. Perspectivity in Cartography and Narrative 3. Mapping History and Memory in Kartography 4. Displacement, Disorientation, and Loss in Maps for Lost Lovers 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Literature Secondary Literature ‘United in Positive Intention’ 1. The Importance of (Self-Transcendence) Values in Literature 2. The Representation of Values in Fictional Crisis Narratives 3. Lincoln in the Bardo as a Fictional Crisis Narrative 4. Structural Elements in Lincoln in the Bardo: Setting, Characters, and Polyphonic Narration 5. Prioritizing Self-Transcendence Values in Lincoln in the Bardo 6. Self-Transcendence as a Solution to the Crises of Lincoln in the Bardo 7. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Optimism in the Anthropocene 1. A Climate of Hope 2. Empathy, Hope, and Positive Change 3. Butterfly Beacon: The Cultivation of Hope in Flight Behaviour 4. Cultivating Hope in the Reader: An Outlook on Creating a Good Anthropocene 5. Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources
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