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.
A powerful, inventive, galvanizing book, explicitly and insistently
theorizing the centrality of disability to the politics of
austerity, without ever resorting to polemic, yet never satisfied
with mere critique. Crip Times is a necessary book for our
times.
*Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability*
Although neoliberalism constantly tells us There Is No Alternative,
McRuer meticulously documents and analyzes those who, as the late
Manning Marable urged, celebrate our passionate discontent with the
way things are.
*American Literary History*
Crip Times demonstrates the hallmarks of Robert McRuers
scholarship, highlighting his formidable skills as a writer and
theorist. Weve needed a text like Crip Times to unpack the cultural
logics of neoliberalism as it attends to disability and austerity,
and McRuer does so with an approach that transcends disciplines and
national contexts.
*Alison Kafer,author of Feminist, Queer, Crip*
A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals
the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity
politics. McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling
theoretical architectures with which to move forward.
*Jack Halberstam,author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender
Bodies, Subcultural Lives*
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