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OverviewThe AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberationof the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructedgay 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Castiglia , Christopher ReedPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780816676118ISBN 10: 0816676119 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 22 November 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: In the Interest of Time 1. Battles over the Gay Past: De-generation and the Queerness of Memory 2. For Time Immemorial: Marking Time in the Built Environment 3. The Revolution Might Be Televised: The Mass Mediation of Gay Memories 4. Queer Theory Is Burning: Sexual Revolution and Traumatic Unremembering 5. Remembering a New Queer Politics: Ideals in the Aftermath of Identity Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviews""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 to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present."" —Jonathan Katz ""If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory."" —Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds <p> If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory. --Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory. --Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds Author InformationChristopher 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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