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Deborah Thurman

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Asst Prof of English at Marshall University Posts reflect personal views, not my employer contemporary lit // she/her Here to read your articles

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"What do audiences gain from watching doomed diversity systems implode?" And how do popular depictions of DEI systems as always already failing affect the political campaign for their elimination? I argue that, despite their ambivalence, contemporary authors are trying to imagine DEI differently

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Diversity Aesthetics: Figuring the Fate of DEI in Contemporary Black Office Fiction Abstract. For scholars and activists on the left, institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) systems are often sites of ambivalence and disillusionment, yet recent right-wing campaigns to el...

Out today: "Diversity Aesthetics: Figuring the Fate of DEI in Contemporary Black Office Fiction" (Gift Link) read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...

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Yes!

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