Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

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Jina B. Kim

Care at the End of the World

Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Jina B. Kim

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Duke University Press
05 May 2025

Disability: social aspects; Gender studies, gender groups

In Care at the End of the World, 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.

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award

By: Jina B. Kim
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781478031710
ISBN 10: 1478031719
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 05 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

""Care at the End of the World 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. This book 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 *