Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing by Jina B. Kim

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Care at the End of the World brings a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform, demonstrating why we need radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. Whereas anti-welfare policy often cast independence and self-ownership as national ideals, Jina Kim's crip-of-color critique readings offer an analysis that not only takes dependency as a given, but mines the term for its transformative potential. Kim draws on works by Karen Tei Yamashita, Aurora Levins Morales, Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, and Grace Lee Boggs to highlight their embrace of public support systems: healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and food welfare. Across genres of speculative fiction, magical realism, and myth, Kim shows how writers and activists create new maps from the seemingly mundane world of infrastructure, dreaming up arrangements of life based in collectivity, mutuality, and interdependency. These visions of support offer liberatory ways of knowing and inhabiting dependency, showing how understanding and claiming our interdependence makes life possible.

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