First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.
By:
Eli Clare
Afterword by:
Dean Spade
Foreword by:
Aurora Levins Morales
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780822360315
ISBN 10: 0822360314
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 07 August 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales xi Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later xxi A Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian? xxvii The Mountain 1 Part I: Place Clearcut: Explaining the Distance 17 Losing Home 31 Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers 51 Clear Cut: End of the Line 61 Casino: An Epilogue 71 Part II. Bodies Freaks and Queers 81 Reading Across the Grain 119 Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart 143 Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition 161 Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade 165 Notes 173 Index 179
Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.
Reviews for Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Eli Clare's Exile and Pride . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements. -- Rachel Rosenbloom * The Women's Review of Books *
