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Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 233x155x13 mm, weight: 333 g, 8 halftones
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2022
  • Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press
  • ISBN-10: 1469666472
  • ISBN-13: 9781469666471
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 233x155x13 mm, weight: 333 g, 8 halftones
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2022
  • Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press
  • ISBN-10: 1469666472
  • ISBN-13: 9781469666471
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative book employs major contemporary texts by both African American and Caribbean writers—Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Dawn Turner, Olive Senior, Oonya Kempadoo, Merle Hodge, and Diana McCaulay—to demonstrate how neoliberalism, within the broader framework of racial capitalism, reframes structural inequalities as personal failures, thus obscuring how to improve unjust conditions.

Through interviews with authors, textual analyses of the fiction, and a diagramming of cross-class relationships, Brooks offers compelling new insight on literary portrayals of class inequalities and division. She expands the scope of how the Black women's literary tradition, since the 1970s, has been conceptualized by repositioning the importance of class and explores why the imagination matters as we think about novel ways to address long-standing and simultaneously evolving issues.

Introduction 1(32)
Class Lines: Look Both Ways before Crossing
PART I African American Literature
1 The Wrong and Right Side of the Tracks
33(28)
Mapping the Intraracial Class Dynamics in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and Dawn Turner's Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
2 Cheap Behavior and Costly Secrets
61(22)
Taboo Topics in Toni Morrison's Love
PART II Caribbean Literature
3 Beyond the "Class" Room
83(25)
The Entanglements of Class and Education in Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey and Olive Senior's Dancing Lessons
4 Human Rights and Wrongs
108(24)
Violations to a Decent Standard of Living in Diana McCaulay's Dog-Heart
Epilogue: Romance across (Class) Borders and Have Some Post-Class 132(19)
Acknowledgments 151(4)
Notes 155(38)
Bibliography 193(24)
Index 217
Robin Brooks is assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Pittsburgh.