Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 11 Nov 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 188
ISBN 9781666923841
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 3 tables;
Dimensions 238 x 157 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Hediye Özkan

Contributor

Samantha Allan

Contributor

Hatice Bay

Contributor

Lynn Deboeck

Contributor

Jill Goad

Contributor

M. Anjum Khan

Contributor

Emilia Nodzak

Contributor

Namrata Dey Roy

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