Real Recognition: What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. It argues that literary texts can make readers get what social acknowledgment is all about and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences

Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at The University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with The National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen.