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Non-Fiction Personal stories of journeys to break social barriers
Books with Powerful Messages of Social Change
Fiction
A deepening understanding of the complexity of the human experience
Social Analysis Issues, activism, and visions for social change
How
to Change the World
Slide2What is the value added of reading different genres/types of books?
Slide3Fiction brings the “voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society… to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope…, writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.” – Ursula K Le Guin
Slide4Narrative Non-Fiction Personal stories of journeys to break social
barriersBooks that recount factual stories, windows into people’s personal journeysMemoir/biography/creative non-fiction – stories based on personal events or researchEthnography – story told by a researcher to provide insight into people’s lives and contextInvestigative journalism – story on a community with the aim of bringing about change
The magic behind different types of books
Fiction A deepening understanding of the complexity of the human experienceBooks that describe imaginary events and people – providing “alternatives to how we live”Novel – a fictitious narrative representing a story with
some degree of realismScience fiction/fantasy – uses magic and other supernatural forms/ fantasy is a form of sci-fi that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technologySocial Analysis Issues, activism, and visions for
social change
Books that
systematically examine a social
issue
with
the aim of prompting
change
Activist biography
–
for the purposes of this class,
books
that tell the stories
of activists, including the
analysis of a specific social issue and
vision
for social change from their perspective
Social analysis
– often written by a researcher, a scholar, a policy maker, or other professional
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