Dillon Stephen Dillon

Fugitive Life (eBook, PDF)

The Queer Politics of the Prison State

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Produktbeschreibung

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' communiques, 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 "e;law and order"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822371892
• Artikelnr.: 54789027

Autorenporträt

Stephen Dillon is Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Queer Studies in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. "Escape-Bound Captives": Race, Neoliberalism, and the Force
of Queerness  1
1. "We're Not Hiding but We're Invisible": Law and Order, the Temporality
of Violence, and the Queer Fugitive  27
2. Life Escapes: Neoliberal Economics, the Underground, and Fugitive
Freedom  54
3. Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, Queer Temporality, and the Afterlife
of Slavery  84
4. "Only the Sun Will Bleach His Bones Quicker": Desire, Police Terror, and
the Affect of Queer Feminist Futures  119
Conclusion. "Being Captured Is Beside the Point": A World beyond the World 
143
Notes  155
Bibliography  171
Index  185