Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Novels

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58887-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milewski, Jaros¿aw

Milewski, Jaroslaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Queer Kinship and the Culture Industry

            Biopolitics of The Culture Industry

            Sex and Kinship

            The Scapegoating of Patient O

            Thicker Than Blood

            Monogamy as a Cure

            A Simulacrum of Diversity

A Lifetime of Resistance

Activists and Bohemians

            Forgetful Bohemians

            Meaningful Kinship

            Acting up for Justice

Witnessing Among Rats

            “Familial Homophobia…”

            “…and Its Consequences”

            Unbearable Witnessing

            No Country for the Rats

Towards Queer Kinship

            Queer Fractures

            One of Us

            The Normal Love

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jaroslaw Milewski holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Lódz, 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.