Standpoint Theory and Trauma: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Literary Journalism and Social Justice, 2022, pp. 99-115
- Issue Date:
- 2022-01-01
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Revisiting two literary journalism texts as case studies-Huckstepp by John Dale and Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara-this chapter interrogates each through the lens of Standpoint Theory, a theory raising the stories of the marginalised through differing power hierarchies, shedding light on the machinations of this power and cogently performing as a remedy, in the name of social justice. This raising up through story is often the work of literary journalists, seeking to distil through narrative the lives of the marginalised. Likewise, this retelling of marginalised truths reconstitutes as advocacy journalism, informing both public interest and the public’s right to know upholding a social justice imperative. And hopefully courting change. The two case studies revolve around a sex work and government assimilation policy. Voices both silenced and repressed by powerful forces, intent on maintaining a status quo for variant reasons, finally heard, and with the literary journalist as witness, retold widely, attendant with the impulse for amelioration, restitution and social justice.
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