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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827684903321

Autore

Pearl Monica B.

Titolo

AIDS literature and gay identity : the literature of loss / / Monica B. Pearl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-22793-8

1-283-94229-1

0-203-09861-7

1-136-22794-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in twentieth-century English literature ; ; 29

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 29

Disciplina

810.9/3561

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) in literature

Gay people's writings, American - History and criticism

Loss (Psychology) in literature

Gay men - Identity

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

Introduction: Gay grief -- Mourning, identity, and gay AIDS fiction -- Queer AIDS literature: the hybrid text -- Queer AIDS literature: ontology, melancholia, fetishism -- Survival and marriage -- Conversations and queer filiation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the AIDS crisis by authors such as Edmund White, Michael Cunningham, Eve Sedgwick - and also, later, the archives of The ACT UP Oral History Project - lie both within the tradition of gay writing and a postm