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Mapping The Culture Wars: American Legal Cultural Studies Now, Katie Rose Pryal
Mapping The Culture Wars: American Legal Cultural Studies Now, Katie Rose Pryal
Katie Rose Guest Pryal
This article draws connections between cultural studies and legal studies in U.S. legal practice and theory. In the United States, scholars in both cultural studies and legal studies have bridged the academic divide between the two disciplines. Legal scholars have broadened the scope of the work that counts as legal scholarship, pushing into the realm of the cultural. At the same time, culturalcritics have been drawn to the powerful, practical aspects of the law, to the promise the law makes to those wishing to engage in cultural work for social change. This intersection of social power and textual interpretation has …
Walking In Another’S Skin: Failure Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird, Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Walking In Another’S Skin: Failure Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird, Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Empathy — how it is discussed and deployed by both the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird and by the author, Lee — is a useful lens to view the depictions of racial injustice in the novel because empathy is the moral fulcrum on which the narrative turns. In this essay, I argue that To Kill a Mockingbird fails to aptly demonstrate the practice of cross-racial empathy. As a consequence, readers cannot empathize with the (largely silent) black characters of the novel. In order to examine the concept of empathy, I have developed a critical framework derived from rhetorician Kenneth …