Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels

AvJarosław Milewski

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This research monograph juxtaposes the works about the AIDS epidemic which were well-received by the mainstream America with Schulman’s own output as a “bard of AIDS burnout,” in the words of Edmund White. In contrast with the prevailing representations of the epidemic, her works emphasize the importance of queer kinship, chosen families and AIDS activist groups that fall outside of the heteronorm. Bearing witness to these voluntary collectivities means also surviving the traumatizing experience of ongoing, repeated death and refusing the idea of an easy solution to the crisis. The monograph tracks the tension between the dominant narratives about the epidemic and those articulated from the excluded positions, arguing that Schulman reformulates queer kinship as the locus of social change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:280 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Antal sidor:180
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032588919

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"[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

Innehållsförteckning

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