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Title: Class Interruptions : Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction
Description: 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.
Authors: Robin Brooks
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Subjects: Black people in literature, American fiction--African American authors--Hi, Caribbean fiction (English)--Black authors--Hi, American fiction--Women authors--History and c, Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors--Hi, Income distribution in literature, Social classes in literature
Categories: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
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