Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action

examines teaching and research practices under feminist new materialisms, affect theories and response-ability through literary and visual products, and offers possible bridges between academia and activism to create feminist interventions in contemporary neoliberal structures. Featuring chapters from contributors across a wide range of disciplines, this book follows a methodological framework that blends traditionally opposite categories, such as theory and practice, and explores contemporary literature and films as case studies within innovative "feminist response-able labs". In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action readers will encounter a collaborative trans-disciplinary toolbox which can be of use to multiple disciplines and an invaluable resource to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers and scholars in literary studies, film studies, feminist theories, new materialisms, and affective pedagogies

Beatriz Revelles-Benavente is Permanent Lecturer at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, University of Granada (Spain) and the UGR coordinator for the GEMMA Erasmus Mundus Master programme in Women's and Gender Studies. She is co-editor of Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. She has also co-edited the collection Teaching Gender: Feminist Responsibility and Politics in Times of Crisis and is the author of Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: A New Materialist Methodology for Critical Thinking. Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa is Senior Lecturer at the University of Granada and Project Leader of GEMMA: Erasmus Mundus Master and Consortium in Women's and Gender Studies; PI for the "Reception, modes and gender" Andalusian Research Group; the "Gender Responsible Lecturing Labs: Interfacing Cultural and Visual Cultures" Andalusian Research Project of Excellence; PI UGR for EUTERPE (Horizon MSCA Doctoral Network) and DIGISCREENS Horizon CHANSE project. Other research positions include Director of the UGR "Feminae" Book Series and Vice-President of the Association of Institutions for Feminist Research and Education in Europe.

Introduction Chapter 1. Fictioning Realities: the Use of Feminist Literature to Materialise the Conflict between Reality and Actuality Solving the Trap of Time Chapter 2. Artherapy, Queer Failure and Horizontal Learning Experience in Students' Postmemory Family Narratives Chapter 3. Feminist Readings of Literature though the History Lens: Establishing Dialogues Past-Present in the English Classroom Chapter 4. Approaching Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities from Affective Pedagogies Chapter 5. Figures of Resistance: Revisiting Cinema and Poetry with Hospit(able)ness and Response-Ability Chapter 6. Becoming (other-than-) water: Resilience and Revolution in Embodying a Feminist Canon. A Diffractive Analysis of El Agua, by Elena López Riera Chapter 7. "Am I Making this up?": Exploring War Trauma and the Distortion of Reality in the Poems of Colette Bryce Chapter 8. Can Children's Tales be Fair? Promoting Responsibility and Sustainability through the Rewriting and Storytelling of Tales with Undergraduate Education Students Chapter 9: New literary Communities: Fanfiction, Identity and Collaborative Writing Chapter 10: To be Continued: Feminist Transnational Convergences and Research Alliances