{"product_id":"care-at-the-end-of-the-world-dreaming-of-infrastructure-in-crip-of-color-writing-hardback-9781478028482","title":"Care at the End of the World; Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Hardback) 9781478028482","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCare at the End of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJina B. Kim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478028482\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 1 illustration\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.572 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCare at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a dream. Jina B. Kim’s work expands the possibilities of disability studies in exciting and much-needed ways while at the same time providing new points of entry into the field for scholars of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Kim weaves literary analysis with history, theory, politics, and lived experience in ways that encourage readers to make connections between systems of oppression and to imagine better futures for us all.\" - Sami Schalk, author of (Black Disability Politics) \"Jina B. Kim has produced a beautifully written book that demonstrates how theorizing from the generative spaces of the margin is productive and necessary for liberation. Throughout this book, Kim brilliantly leads us on a journey exploring literary texts that demonstrate the transformative and revolutionary potential of radical interdependency. This book is a must-read for all those looking for new and innovative approaches to concepts like disability, infrastructure, care, and freedom.\" - Cathy J. Cohen, author of (The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCare at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Dreaming of Infrastructure  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Cripping the Welfare Queen: Disability and Infrastructural Violence in Sapphire’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003ePush\u003c\/i\u003e and Jesmyn Ward’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eSalvage the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Refuse Work: Samuel Delany’\u003cbr\u003es Crip-Queer Ethics and Erotics of Waste Management  59\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lines of Transit, Migration, Mobility: Cripping the Freeway Fictions of Karen Tei Yamashita and Octavia E. Butler  92\u003cbr\u003e 4. Care at the End of the World: Health\/Care Infrastructure and Disability Justice Life-Writing  129\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Mourning After  157\u003cbr\u003e Notes  165\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  187\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52713901326616,"sku":"9781478028482","price":61.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/care-at-the-end-of-the-world-dreaming-of-infrastructure-in-crip-of-color-writing-hardback-9781478028482","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}