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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eve DunbarPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.255kg ISBN: 9781517917876ISBN 10: 1517917875 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 05 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Radical Satisfaction of Black Women’s Monstrous Work 1. Ugly Work: Alterity and the “Ugly Work” of Black Life 2. Home Work: Black Domestic Liberation 3. Domestic Work: Dangerous Workers and Black Sociality 4. Line Work: Human–Nonhuman Crossings and New Routes to Black Satisfaction Coda: The Revenant Notes Acknowledgments IndexReviews"""Eve Dunbar’s exploration of radical satisfaction provides a new way to conceptualize Black female subjectivity outside the limits of racial inclusion. In a series of bold, incisive readings, she analyzes examples of agency and joy that defy conventional narratives of progress. This book provides a necessary reorientation to the power of monstrous work and satisfaction."" —Stephanie Li, author of Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America " Author InformationEve Dunbar is the Jean Webster Professor of English at Vassar College. She is author of Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World and coeditor of African American Literature in Transition: 19301940. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |