02994oam 2200685I 450 991046281720332120200520144314.01-283-94229-10-203-09861-71-136-22794-610.4324/9780203098615 (CKB)2670000000315514(EBL)1108570(OCoLC)823719454(SSID)ssj0000803798(PQKBManifestationID)12356454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803798(PQKBWorkID)10810642(PQKB)10907293(MiAaPQ)EBC1108570(Au-PeEL)EBL1108570(CaPaEBR)ebr10643488(CaONFJC)MIL425479(EXLCZ)99267000000031551420180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAIDS literature and gay identity the literature of loss /Monica B. PearlNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (208 p.)Routledge studies in twentieth-century English literature ;29Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;29Description based upon print version of record.1-138-93698-7 0-415-80887-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 postmRoutledge Studies in Twentieth-Century LiteratureAIDS (Disease) in literatureGays' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismLoss (Psychology) in literatureGay menIdentityElectronic books.AIDS (Disease) in literature.Gays' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Loss (Psychology) in literature.Gay menIdentity.810.9/3561Pearl Monica B.959182MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462817203321AIDS literature and gay identity2173307UNINA