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Volume 40 (2021)
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Preface: General editor's preface _
Article: Introduction : the work of work 5
Article: Towards a framework for reading U.S. American literary expression in terms of conditions, values, and emotions related to work 17
Article: "Quality time" with David Foster Wallace : The Pale King's emotional economy 35
Article: The tragedy of being-precarious in contemporary American drama 53
Article: Impotentiality in Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women 75
Article: Revolt through passivity? : Getting high and staying in with Ottessa Moshfegh's My year of Rest and Relaxation 99
Article: Marx v. Bezos : South Park's first labor episodes 121
Article: Working the people, working the earth : the exploitation of humans and the environment in North American slave narratives 141
Article: Technoliberal machines : robotic work(ers) from science fiction to assembly line 159
Article: "Happy people at work" : work society's other spaces in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last 187
Rubric: Notes on Contributors 205
Index: Index of names 209
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