Clare Eli Clare

Brilliant Imperfection (eBook, PDF)

Grappling with Cure

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373520
• Artikelnr.: 54687784

Autorenporträt

Eli Clare

Inhaltsangabe

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