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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Castiglia , Christopher ReedPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780816676101ISBN 10: 0816676100 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 22 November 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsReviewsIf 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 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 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 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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