Exile within Exiles

“This engaging and beautifully written account of the life of Herbert Daniel captures the spirit and energy of a person I knew well. We did political work together in Belo Horizonte and then both went underground in 1969 to resist the military dictatorship. Exile within Exiles captures the essence of an extraordinary person living in a period of intense changes, who was a pioneer in the fight to openly express his sexual identity while struggling for a more just and egalitarian Brazil.” - Dilma Rousseff

“An exceptionally original and deeply moving work, Exile within Exiles is an important contribution to the contemporary history of Brazil. There is no scholar better positioned to tell the story and significance of Herbert Daniel's life and political activism than James N. Green, who is the leading historian of gay politics and social movements in Brazil, as well as a major authority on the social, political, and cultural history of the period of the Brazilian dictatorship.” - Barbara Weinstein, author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

"Exile Within Exiles speaks to Daniel’s personal struggle not just against the Brazilian dictatorship but also the left’s construction of revolutionary masculinity — as well as his ultimate losing battle against AIDS. Green positions Daniel as a link between a more violently intolerant past and a progressive movement that seeks dialog and results." - Donald Padgett, HIV Plus Mag

"Exile within Exiles is an elegiac homage to Herbert Daniel. . . . James N. Green artfully brings to life the history of a man on the margins who defied easy categorization. . . . In the process, Green presents an innovative approach to grasping the imbrications of sexuality and politics in modern Latin American history." - Patrick William Kelly, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies

"James N. Green captures the life of an extraordinary figure in late twentieth-century Brazil and does so with great detail and sensitivity. . . . Beautifully researched and realized, Exile Within Exiles is the story, not only of a man, but a movement. Its apt title is the perfect metaphor for a gay man whose sexuality was not widely accepted by the movement that was so close to his heart." - John Francis Leonard, A&U Magazine

"Exile within Exiles is a refreshing addition to a growing genre that explores the intersection of public and private spheres, both in the lives of historical figures as well as in the creation of political movements."

"Masterful. . . . Green’s book is certainly a victory, one of memory and history." - Cristina Scheibe Wolff, EIAL

"Exile within Exiles seamlessly merges the particulars of Daniel’s life with the broader context of repression and mobilization in authoritarian Brazil, the cultural milieu and restrictions of Brazilian society, and the grassroots mobilization in Brazil’s transition to democracy. The result is a compelling life-and-times biography." - Colin M. Snider, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

"James Green has produced a pathbreaking portrait that combines compelling biography with critical historiographical contributions." - Benjamin A. Cowan, HAHR

“A magni?cent and moving biography that tells a larger story about resistance to authoritarian rule, the struggle for democracy, and the assertion of gay subjectivity in modern Brazil.” - Christopher Dunn, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research

"[This] book should appeal to a wide audience. Scholars interested in the conflicts, strategies, and dilemmas of the Brazilian Left as it engaged in the struggle against the military regime will find in Green’s book a rich source of information. Likewise, those concerned with understanding the dilemmas of the politicization of homosexuality and the emergence of the homosexual movement in Brazil will find an original analysis of one of the first experiments to articulate the agenda of sexual diversity within party politics." - Gustavo Gomes da Costa Santos, Journal of the History of Sexuality