Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. It argues that literary texts can make readers get what social acknowledgment is all about and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
