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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789707203321

Autore

Castiglia Christopher

Titolo

If memory serves [[electronic resource] ] : gay men, AIDS, and the promise of the queer past / / Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4762-7

0-8166-7868-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReedChristopher <1961->

Disciplina

306.76/60973

Soggetti

Gay people - United States - History

Gay culture - United States - History

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - United States

Queer theory - United States

Gay and lesbian studies - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Battles over the gay past: de-generation and the queerness of memory -- For time immemorial: marking time in the built environment -- The revolution might be televised: the mass mediation of gay memories -- Queer theory is burning: sexual revolution and traumatic unremembering -- Remembering a new queer politics: ideals in the aftermath of identity.

Sommario/riassunto

How gay memory suppressed after AIDS returns in visions of sexual identity and social idealism