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

• Autore: Pearl Monica B.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3561
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) in literature; Gay people's writings, American - History and criticism; Loss (Psychology) in literature; Gay men - Identity
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: AIDS literature and gay identity
• ISBN: 1-136-22793-8; 1-283-94229-1; 0-203-09861-7; 1-136-22794-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786084003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature