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11%OFFChristopher Castiglia - If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past - 9780816676118 - V9780816676118
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If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past

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Description for If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH2; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.

The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS.

Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture from the suppression and repression of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816676118
SKU
V9780816676118
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About Christopher Castiglia
Christopher Castiglia is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. Christopher Reed is associate professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews for If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past
"If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry—that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity—toward a new historical narrative that refuses ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past


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