MONSTROUS WORK AND RADICAL SATISFACTION virtual event with Harvard University Hutchins Center and Eve Dunbar
February 10 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Eve Dunbar will join the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University for a virtual discussion of her book Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing under Segregation, at 12:00 p.m. EST. on February 10, 2025, in conversation with Candice Jenkins. This event is part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series.
This event is free and open to the public. Please click the link below to register.
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the 1930s–1950s, illustrating these writers’ radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integration. Eve Dunbar demonstrates how they offer new blueprints for Black life by creating narrative models for radical satisfaction: Black women’s completeness, joy, and happiness outside the bounds of normative racial inclusion.
“Edifying and incisive, this impresses.” —Publishers Weekly
“A compelling new interpretation of Black feminist literature from the 1930s through the 1950s.” —Ms. Magazine
“Eve Dunbar’s exploration of radical satisfaction provides a new way to conceptualize Black female subjectivity outside the limits of racial inclusion. In a series of bold, incisive readings, she analyzes examples of agency and joy that defy conventional narratives of progress. This book provides a necessary reorientation to the power of monstrous work and satisfaction.”—Stephanie Li, author of Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America
