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... Turning to Sapphire’s 1996 novel Push and Jesmyn Ward’s 2011 novel Salvage the Bones , this chapter examines how these novels forge necessary links between welfare reform’s disabling reorganization of public infrastructure and pathological narratives of Black mothering like the so-called...

... The book closes with a brief afterword, “The Nutty Professor (A Confession)” which illuminates the specter of madness and the figure of the black scholar. In the process, the author discloses his personal stake in mad black study. disability narrative Frantz Fanon Native Son obsessive...

...: the unstable boundaries between narrative forms, and the legacies of the conquest of the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade. By linking disability to these larger issues in Díaz’s fiction, this chapter argues that a critical disability perspective on Díaz’s fiction offers new theoretical insights about...

... The epilogue ventures into the territory of personal narrative, relaying the author’s own disabled, femme-of-color dreams of infrastructure. It describes her experiences tending to her best friend during end-stage cancer care. The author reflects on how queer-of-color and disability life-writing...

... noncitizen immigrant. In so doing, it connects the book’s disability analysis of dependency and major welfare reform to the narratives and practices of globalization, focusing on the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. It argues that Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower and Yamashita’s 1997 novel...

... to two of Díaz’s primary interests as a writer: the unstable boundaries between narrative forms, and the legacies of the conquest of the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade. By linking disability to these larger issues in Díaz’s fiction, this chapter argues that a critical disability perspective...

...The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital This essay argues that the engagement of social difference from the standpoint of disability could prove to be especially provocative within critical ethnic studies. Building on the work of Hortense Spillers, the essay questions the assumption...

... a conjunction of sexuality and economics untouched. Advancing a historical analysis of race, immigration, and disability, Natalia Molina offers an examination of how public health and immigration discourses defined Mexican immigrants as culturally or physically unfit for citizenship. Eithne...

... of intimacy among humans and animals, intersecting gender, sexuality, disability, and species. In search of a different way of perceiving pet cloning, this chapter turns to the narrative of a pet owner who cloned his deceased dog to examine how he carries the memories of the dog through the fragmented...

... Part 4 examines how artists and organizers are resisting colonial concepts of space and creating models for more equitable engagement with the environment and one another. Contributions highlight water as a physical and narrative connector of land and its critical role in Pacific Islander...

... and animals, intersecting gender, sexuality, disability, and species. In search of a different way of perceiving pet cloning, this chapter turns to the narrative of a pet owner who cloned his deceased dog to examine how he carries the memories of the dog through the fragmented and haunting embodiments evoked...

... dependency on others. Through refuse work, it demonstrates how Delany’s reverent depiction of sanitation infrastructure makes imaginable a crip-queer politics of antiwork that refuses the naturalized relationship between waged labor and independence forged by welfare-to-work narratives. queer of color...

... another. Murphy observes how, through skinship, BTS illustrates a tactile life not limited to traditional notions of sex and sexuality, and afforded to her a mediated closeness in the midst of its necessary absence. intimacy skinship disability chronic illness sex and sexuality In “‘Gender...