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Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss. UK 2015, 200 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Inhalt
This book discusses the significance of late 20th century and early 21st 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.
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Schwul > Wissenschaft
Schwul > Film, Kultur und Kunst
Schwul > Film, Kultur und Kunst
Themen
AIDS
Edmund White
Eve Sedgwick
Michael Cunningham
Literatur und Literaturgeschichte
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