Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (Cultural Front)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814757138 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 301 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Solid grounding in radical theory and new crip/queer ideas Densely theoretical but readable for someone college-educated and immersed in either queer ideas or disability language, this book is fantastic in its imaginative scope and evoking of solid examples. Berube hops among artists, writers, performers, and academics to develop a crip t. Resistance tamiii I read this about a year ago. It has taken me this long to digest and appreciate this intriguing book. When I first started to talk about it with older gay men, the reaction was visceral anger. Naturally, homosexual men have struggled against being classified as pathological, cele
His work is at its most vertiginous and rich as he moves swiftly from cinema to street gangs to coming out Crip.”-American Quarterly“The members of the Committee were especially impressed by McRuer’s original intervention in the area of queer studies, one that not only sheds light on the important new area of disability studies, but brings it into conversation with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from composition studies to performance art. This deftly written and very readable book will appeal to a wide range of readers who are increasingly fascinated by the biocultural interplay between the body, sexuality, gender, and social identity.”-Lennard Davis,author of Bending Over Backwards. “This well-annotated text invites the uninitiated reader to become involved, to reimagine previously held perceptions of what may be considered ‘otherness,’ to welcome disabilities, to access collectively other wor
Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other.Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globali
Robert McRuer is Professor of English at The George Washington University. Wilkerson, of Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies, a special issue of GLQ.. He is the author of The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (also available from NYU Press) and co-editor, with Abby L