Brilliant Imperfection - Eli Clare

Brilliant Imperfection

Grappling with Cure

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6276-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes—from saving lives to social control—while critiquing cure rhetoric and the drive to cure disabled people through an insistence of the value of disability.
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds. The stories he tells range widely, stretching from disability stereotypes to weight loss surgery, gender transition to skin lightening creams. At each turn, Clare weaves race, disability, sexuality, class, and gender together, insisting on the nonnegotiable value of body-mind difference. Into this mix, he adds environmental politics, thinking about ecosystem loss and restoration as a way of delving more deeply into cure. Ultimately Brilliant Imperfection reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural, slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at the same time.

Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, also published by Duke University Press, and The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Writing a Mosaic  xv
A Note on Reading This Book: Thinking about Trigger Warnings  xix
Brilliant Imperfection: White Pines  1
1. Ideology of Cure  7
Brilliant Imperfection: Twitches and Tremors  19
2. Violence of Cure  21
Brilliant Imperfection: Maples  33
3. In Tandem with Cure  37
Brlliant Imperfection: Stone  49
4. Nuances of Cure  51
Brilliant Imperfection: Shells  65
5. Structure of Cure  67
Brilliant Imperfection: Hermit Crabs  81
6. How Cure Works  83
Brilliant Imperfection: Rolling  99
7. At the Center of Cure  101
Brilliant Imperfection: Myrtle  125
8. Moving Through Cure  127
Brilliant Imperfection: Drag Queen  147
9. Impacts fo Cure  149
Brilliant Imperfection: Survival Notes  169
10. Promise of Cure  171
Brilliant Imperfection: Cycling  189
Notes  191
Bibliography  201
Index  209

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8223-6276-7 / 0822362767
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-6276-0 / 9780822362760
Zustand Neuware
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