The Intersectional Exploitation And The Situational Irony Of Disabled Lumpenproletariat In The Novel Motherless Brooklyn

Abstract

This paper explores marginalization effected by the intersectionality of psychological disability and class-based subalternity in the novel ‘Motherless Brooklyn’. Through analyzing characters afflicted by psychological disabilities and how their class situations lead them to involve themselves in exploitatory endeavors, this paper focuses on the structure of exploitation made possible by the intersectionaliity of both disability and class-based marginalization.