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Exile and Pride | Praise
“How pleasurable it is to pick up a book that merely intrigues you because
of its title and find that it is a gem well beyond its cover. This rare phenomenon
happened when I came across Eli Clare's Exile and Pride. Only a maestro
of a writer can adroitly weave together her own story plus environmental, political,
disability, and lesbian issues into a cohesive whole, coming out with such clarity
that you find yourself identifying with many parts and muttering, 'But of course.'
This thin volume is so thick with thought that you almost feel you have just
devoured an oversized piece of key lime pie—indeed a rich treat to digest.”
—Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
“The books that move us most are the ones that help us make sense of our experience,
that take pieces of what we already know and put it together with new insights,
new analysis, enabling us to form a fresh vision of ourselves and our lives.
For me, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider and Adrienne Rich's On
Lies, Secrets, and Silence were such books, and there were significant
others along the way. And now there's Eli Clare's Exile and Pride.”
—Suzanne Pharr, author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
“Eli
Clare writes with the spirit of a poet and the toughness of a construction worker.
The passion and skill of her writing will draw you inside a complex life and
more deeply inside yourself.”
—Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories
“Eli
Clare’s original work exploring the interstices between class, environmentalism,
radical gender politics, and disability consciousness moves beyond the false
compartmentalization that has characterized progressive politics in the nineties,
and toward a viable radical politics for the twenty-first century.”
—Ynestra King, co-editor of Dangerous Intersections
"Eli Clare's Exile and Pride is a call to awareness, an
exhortation for each of us to examine our connection to and alienation from
our environment, our sexuality, and each other."
—Kenny Fries, author of Body, Remember: A Memoir and editor of
Staring Back: The Disability Experience From The Inside Out
"Eli Clare is a woman who writes because she loves to write, and in so
doing she carries us into new terrain with strength, grace, and courage. Clare
locates herself in her particular geography, body, and class, teasing out the
power and the pain of crip, queer, freak, and redneck--the gift to us of this
particular clear spirit finding her way home."
—Mab Segrest, author of Memoir of a Race Traitor
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