Jina B Kim

Care at the End of the World

Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031710
• ISBN-10: 1478031719
• Artikelnr.: 71882732

Autorenporträt

Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Dreaming of Infrastructure  1
1. Cripping the Welfare Queen: Disability and Infrastructural Violence in
Sapphire’s Push and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones  27
2. Refuse Work: Samuel Delany’s Crip-Queer Ethics and Erotics of Waste
Management  59
3. Lines of Transit, Migration, Mobility: Cripping the Freeway Fictions of
Karen Tei Yamashita and Octavia E. Butler  92
4. Care at the End of the World: Health/Care Infrastructure and Disability
Justice Life-Writing  129
Epilogue: The Mourning After  157
Notes  165
Bibliography  187
Index