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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819759303321

Autore

Schulman Sarah <1958->

Titolo

The gentrification of the mind [[electronic resource] ] : witness to a lost imagination / / Sarah Schulman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-36978-8

9786613369789

0-520-95233-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Classificazione

MS 1810

Disciplina

362.196/9792

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects

AIDS (Disease) - United States

Gentrification - United States

Urban renewal - United States

Urbanization - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Understanding the past -- pt. 2. The consequences of loss.

Sommario/riassunto

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and brings it to life, filling these pages with vivid memories of her avant-garde queer friends and dramatically recreating the early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis, Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation's imagination and the consequences of that loss.