American Studies is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Mid-America American Studies Association, the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of American Studies, and KU Libraries.
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06/09/2020
On Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: “Narrative Reconstructions and Collective Knowledge”
Ashvin R. Kini In a recent episode of her podcast Intersectionality Matters,[i] entitled “Narrating the Nightmare and (Re)Imagining the Possible,” Kimberlé Crenshaw spoke with writers Kiese Laymon, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Arundhati Roy about the power and value of storytelling in times of crisis. “The work of social justice,” Crenshaw observed, “is the work of narrative reconstruction, building new stories around facts that are often disregarded, invisibilized and taken for granted as acceptable and unremarkable features of social life.” The conversation that followed touched on power and representation; the writer/artist in a society structured by racial capitalism, settler colonialism and unending war; and the political and ethical dimensions of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, scholarship, satire and humor—each important for understanding where we have been and where we might go from here. [ 883 more words ]
http://amsj.blog/2020/06/09/on-teaching-in-the-time-of-covid-19-narrative-reconstructions-and-collective-knowledge/
Ashvin R. Kini In a recent episode of her podcast Intersectionality Matters,[i] entitled “Narrating the Nightmare and (Re)Imagining the Possible,” Kimberlé Crenshaw spoke with writers Kiese Laymon,…
