Care at the End of the World

Auteur

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

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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.

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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