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03866aam a2200457 i 4500 001 5C2577B4DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210624s2022 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021030587 020 $a 1469666472 020 $a 9781469666471 020 $a 1469666464 020 $a 9781469666464 035 $a (OCoLC)1266895745 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3423 $b .B76 2022 082 00 $a 813/.5409928708996 $2 23/eng/20211201 100 1 $a Brooks, Robin, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a Class interruptions : $b inequality and division in African diasporic women's fiction / $c Robin Brooks. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 225 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Class Lines: Look Both Ways Before Crossing -- African American Literature. The Wrong and Right Side of the Tracks: Mapping the Intraracial Class Dynamics in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and Dawn Turner's Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven ; Cheap Behavior and Costly Secrets: Taboo Topics in Toni Morrison's Love -- Caribbean Literature. Beyond the "Class" Room: The Entanglements of Class and Education in Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey and Olive Senior's Dancing Lessons ; Human Rights and Wrongs: Violations to a Decent Standard of Living in Diana McCaulay's Dog-Heart -- Epilogue: Romance Across (Class) Borders & Have Some Post-Class. 520 $a "As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks makes 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 reconceptualizes the scope of the Black women's literary tradition since the 1970s by repositioning the importance of class, and she explores why the imagination matters as we think about novel ways to address long-standing and simultaneously evolving inequities"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Black people in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Caribbean fiction (English) $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Caribbean fiction (English) $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Income distribution $x In literature. 650 0 $a Social classes in literature. 650 7 $a American fiction $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807049 650 7 $a American fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807099 650 7 $a Blacks in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834025 650 7 $a Social classes in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122375 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C2577B4DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search