Jarosław Milewski holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Łódź, where he currently works as a teaching assistant at the Department of American Literature. He is also an editorial secretary of InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies.

"[This volume] study contextualizes Schulman’s fiction within its historical and sociopolitical context, with a keen eye to the way fiction may serve as a gesture of “acting up” as it agitates for alternative imaginings of queer identities and collectives in crisis. Close textual analysis and contextualization lend the book the sort of academic rigor and cultural awareness we have come to expect of the Routledge series... Highly recommended. All readers."--G. Sikorski, Anne Arundel Community College, CHOICE

• IntroductionQueer Kinship and the Culture IndustryBiopolitics of The Culture IndustrySex and KinshipThe Scapegoating of Patient OThicker Than BloodMonogamy as a CureA Simulacrum of DiversityA Lifetime of ResistanceActivists and BohemiansForgetful BohemiansMeaningful KinshipActing up for JusticeWitnessing Among Rats“Familial Homophobia…”“…and Its Consequences”Unbearable WitnessingNo Country for the RatsTowards Queer KinshipQueer FracturesOne of UsThe Normal LoveConclusion

Jarosław Milewski holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Łódź, where he currently works as a teaching assistant at the Department of American Literature. He is also an editorial secretary of InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies.

"[This volume] study contextualizes Schulman’s fiction within its historical and sociopolitical context, with a keen eye to the way fiction may serve as a gesture of “acting up” as it agitates for alternative imaginings of queer identities and collectives in crisis. Close textual analysis and contextualization lend the book the sort of academic rigor and cultural awareness we have come to expect of the Routledge series... Highly recommended. All readers."--G. Sikorski, Anne Arundel Community College, CHOICE

• IntroductionQueer Kinship and the Culture IndustryBiopolitics of The Culture IndustrySex and KinshipThe Scapegoating of Patient OThicker Than BloodMonogamy as a CureA Simulacrum of DiversityA Lifetime of ResistanceActivists and BohemiansForgetful BohemiansMeaningful KinshipActing up for JusticeWitnessing Among Rats“Familial Homophobia…”“…and Its Consequences”Unbearable WitnessingNo Country for the RatsTowards Queer KinshipQueer FracturesOne of UsThe Normal LoveConclusion