Care at the End of the World

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

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Dreaming of Infrastructure 1 1. Cripping the Welfare Queen: Disability and Infrastructural Violence in Sapphire's Push and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones 27 2. Refuse Work: Samuel Delany's Crip-Queer Ethics and Erotics of Waste Management 59 3. Lines of Transit, Migration, Mobility: Cripping the Freeway Fictions of Karen Tei Yamashita and Octavia E. Butler 92 4. Care at the End of the World: Health/Care Infrastructure and Disability Justice Life-Writing 129 Epilogue: The Mourning After 157 Notes 165 Bibliography 187 Index

"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. Kim 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) "Jina B. Kim has produced a beautifully written book that demonstrates how theorizing from the generative spaces of the margin is productive and necessary for liberation. Throughout this book, Kim brilliantly leads us on a journey exploring literary texts that demonstrate the transformative and revolutionary potential of radical interdependency. This book is a must-read for all those looking for new and innovative approaches to concepts like disability, infrastructure, care, and freedom." - Cathy J. Cohen, author of (The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics)