AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss

Monica Pearl (University of Manchester, UK)

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Routledge
19 December 2012

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

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 postmodernist poetics. The book demonstrates how literary texts both expose and construct personal identity, how they expose and produce sexual identities, and how gay and queer identities were written onto the page, but also constructed and consolidated by these very texts. Pearl argues that the division between realist and postmodern, and gay and queer, respectively, is determined by whether the experience expressed and accounted is mediated through the psychoanalytic categories of mourning or melancholia, and is marked by a kind of coherence or chaos in the texts themselves. This study presents an important development in scholarly work in gay literary studies, queer theory, and AIDS representation.

By: Monica Pearl (University of Manchester UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9780415808873
ISBN 10: 0415808871
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 19 December 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Gay Grief 2. Mourning, Identity, and Gay AIDS Fiction 3. Queer AIDS Literature: The Hybrid Text 4. Queer AIDS Literature: Ontology, Melancholia, Fetishism 5. Survival and Marriage 6. Conversations and Queer Filiation

Monica B. Pearl is Lecturer in Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester, UK.