LEADER 04097oam 2200781I 450 001 9910969894003321 005 20251011015334.0 010 $a1-136-22793-8 010 $a1-283-94229-1 010 $a0-203-09861-7 010 $a1-136-22794-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203098615 035 $a(CKB)2670000000315514 035 $a(EBL)1108570 035 $a(OCoLC)823719454 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803798 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12356454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803798 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10810642 035 $a(PQKB)10907293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1108570 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1108570 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10643488 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL425479 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135147 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000315514 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAIDS literature and gay identity $ethe literature of loss /$fMonica B. Pearl 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century English literature ;$v29 225 0$aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;$v29 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-138-93698-7 311 08$a0-415-80887-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the AIDS crisis by authors such as Edmund White, Michael Cunningham, Eve Sedgwick - and also, later, the archives of The ACT UP Oral History Project - lie both within the tradition of gay writing and a postmodernist poetics. The book demonstrates how literary texts both expose and construct personal identity, how they expose and produce sexual identities, and how gay and queer identities were written onto the page, but also constructed and consolidated by these very texts. Pearl argues that the division between realist and postmodern, and gay and queer, respectively, is determined by whether the experience expressed and accounted is mediated through the psychoanalytic categories of mourning or melancholia, and is marked by a kind of coherence or chaos in the texts themselves. This study presents an important development in scholarly work in gay literary studies, queer theory, and AIDS representation. --$cPublisher 410 0$aRoutledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 606 $aAIDS (Disease) in literature 606 $aGay people's writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLoss (Psychology) in literature 606 $aGay men$xIdentity 606 $aHIV/AIDS$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000005 606 $aGay fiction$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000493 606 $aGay literature$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000502 615 0$aAIDS (Disease) in literature. 615 0$aGay people's writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLoss (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aGay men$xIdentity. 615 7$aHIV/AIDS. 615 7$aGay fiction. 615 7$aGay literature. 676 $a810.9/3561 700 $aPearl$b Monica B.$01820163 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969894003321 996 $aAIDS literature and gay identity$94381922 997 $aUNINA