Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: Stories of Hope ix
4. Introduction: Good/Story 1
5. Part I Stories That Do Good
6. 1 What Good Can Stories Do? 19
7. 2 “I Actually Came Out on Top!” Narratives of Formerly Incarcerated People Who Made Prison Work 41
8. 3 Fresh Home: Narratives Celebrating Freedom from Prison and the Durability of the Street Self in UK Rap Music 67
9. 4 Real Utopian Stories to Counter the Climate Apocalypse 91
10. Part II Good in the Telling
11. 5 Morality from the Mountaintop: Comparing Philosophical and Narrative Approaches to Increasing the Good 117
12. 6 “The Places I Could Go” A Good Story of Probation 140
13. 7 Good Storytelling and the Fraught Promise of Intimacy 163
14. 8 Youth Narrating the Future: Climate Change Activism as a Civil Rights Movement 186
15. 9 The Gift of Survivor Stories: Recognizing the Political Promise of Sexual Violence Narratives 209
16. 10 Mandela and Luzira Prison: A Mother-Daughter Story 231
17. Acknowledgments 251
18. About the Contributors 253
19. About the Editors 255
20. Index 257