Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

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NYU Press, 2006 - 283 Seiten

A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies

Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. 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 globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. 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.

 

Inhalt

Compulsory AbleBodiedness andQueerDisabled Existence
1
Malibu Is Burning
33
Sharon KowalskiInterdependency and Queer Domesticity
77
The Transformation Gary Fisherand the Limits of Rehabilitation
103
The CorporateUniversity and Alternative Corporealities
146
Queer TheoryBob Flanagan and the Disciplining of Disability Studies
171
Specters of Disability
199
Notes
209
Works Cited
247
Index
269
About the Author
283
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Robert McRuer
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Beliebte Passagen

Seite 244 - To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.‎
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Seite 87 - ... in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home.‎
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Seite 157 - That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.‎
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Seite 45 - Forum is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism...‎
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Seite 239 - Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does not break with it, is linked to a comfortable practice of reading. Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.‎
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Seite 221 - ... Gegensinn der Urworte" (Abel). " In dealing here with hymen, it is not a matter of repeating what Hegel undertook to do with German words like Aufhebung, Urteil, Meinen, Beispiel, etc., marveling over that lucky accident that installs a natural language within the element of speculative dialectics. What counts here is not the lexical richness, the semantic infiniteness of a word or concept, its depth or breadth, the sedimentation that has produced inside it two contradictory layers of signification...‎
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Seite 210 - Thus, heterosexuality is consolidated as the opposite of the "sex" whose secret, Foucault says, "the obligation to conceal...was but another aspect of the duty to admit to." 9 To the degree that heterosexuality does not function as a sexuality, however, there are stubborn barriers to making it accountable, to making it so much as visible, in the framework of projects of historicizing and hence denaturalizing sexuality. The making historically visible of heterosexuality is difficult because, under...‎
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Autoren-Profil (2006)

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (both also available from NYU Press). With Anna Mollow, he co-edited the anthology Sex and Disability.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelCrip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Band 9 von Cultural Front
Autor/inRobert McRuer
Ausgabeillustriert, kommentiert
VerlagNYU Press, 2006
ISBN081475712X, 9780814757123
Länge283 Seiten
  
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