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Fugitive life : the queer politics of the prison state

Title
Fugitive life : the queer politics of the prison state / Stephen Dillon.
Author
Dillon, Stephen, 1983-
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
x, 189 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neoliberal-carceral state. Drawing on writings by Angela Davis, the George Jackson Brigade, Assata Shakur, the Weather Underground, and others, Dillon shows how these activists were among the first to theorize and make visible the links between conservative "law and order" rhetoric, free market ideology, incarceration, sexism, and the continued legacies of slavery. Dillon theorizes these prisoners and fugitives as queer figures who occupied a unique position from which to highlight how neoliberalism depended upon racialized mass incarceration. In so doing, he articulates a vision of fugitive freedom in which the work of these activists becomes foundational to undoing the reign of the neoliberal-carceral state."--Back cover.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: "Escape-bound captives": race, neoliberalism, and the force of queerness -- "We're not hiding but we're invisible" : law and order, the temporality of violence, and the queer fugitive -- Life escapes : neoliberal economics, the underground, and fugitive freedom -- Possessed by death : Black feminism, queer temporality, and the afterlife of slavery -- "Only the sun will bleach his bones quicker" : desire, police terror, and the affect of queer feminist futures -- Conclusion: "Being captured is beside the point": a world beyond the world.
Call Number
Sc E 18-938
ISBN
  • 9780822370673
  • 0822370670
  • 9780822370826
  • 0822370824
LCCN
2017051974
OCLC
1000033277
Author
Dillon, Stephen, 1983- author.
Title
Fugitive life : the queer politics of the prison state / Stephen Dillon.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-938
JFE 18-6749
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