Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781666923841 (ISBN)

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As a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study on literary and visual representations of woman’s work, this collection examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work to understand the position of working women and the value of her labor in the capitalistic economic systems.

Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work through critical essays about representations of women’s work in non-canonical literary writings, mass media, and popular culture. Covering a broad range of texts including Paule Marshall’s fiction, Natasha Trethewey’s poetry, and the Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, among others, this collection takes an intersectional approach in order to shed light on the definition and meaning of marginalized women's work and the value of their labor in the capitalistic economic systems of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Hediye Özkan is instructor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Aksaray University, Turkey.

Part I: Motherhood, Work, and Resistance

Chapter One: “Package Labeled Colored”: Reading Race, Gender, and Labor in Ann Petry’s The Street
Namrata Dey Roy
Chapter Two: Invisible Labor, Partnership, and Resistance: Staging Women’s Undervalued Work
Lynn Deboeck

Part II: Poetic Representations of Working Women

Chapter Three: “Eschew[Ing] The Polaroid Instant”: The Depiction of Women Workers in Natasha Trethewey’s Domestic Work and Bellocq’s Ophelia
Jill Goad
Chapter Four: Memory at Work: Docupoetry and the Mnemonic Labor of Women
Samantha Allan
Chapter Five: Decoration as a Form of Self-Care: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks’s Black Female Domestic Workers
Alicia Ye Sul Oh

Part III: Immigrant Working Women in Metropolitans

Chapter Six: Cutting and Contriving: Ulene Payne in Paule Marshall’s Novel The Fisher King
Margaret E. Salifu
Chapter Seven: Wife, Woman, and Breadwinner: Nazneen Ahmed’s Journey in a Foreign Land
M. Anjum Khan

Part IV: Visual Representation of Working Women

Chapter E

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2022
Co-Autor	Samantha Allan, Hatice Bay, Lynn Deboeck, Jill Goad
Zusatzinfo	3 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 238 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781666923841 / 9781666923841
Zustand	Neuware