TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milewski,Jarosław
TI  - Queer kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS novels
T2  - Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
SN  - 9781003451976
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20231218
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Schulman, Sarah,
KW  - Gay people in literature
KW  - Kinship in literature
KW  - AIDS (Disease) in literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Queer kinship and the culture industry -- A lifetime of resistance -- Activists and bohemians -- Witnessing among rats -- Towards queer kinship
N2  - "Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This research monograph juxtaposes the works about the AIDS epidemic which were well-received by the mainstream America with Schulman's own output as a "bard of AIDS burnout," in the words of Edmund White. In contrast with the prevailing representations of the epidemic, her works emphasize the importance of queer kinship, chosen families, and AIDS activist groups that fall outside of the heteronorm. Bearing witness to these voluntary collectivities means also surviving the traumatizing experience of ongoing, repeated death and refusing the idea of an easy solution to the crisis. The monograph tracks the tension between the dominant narratives about the epidemic and those articulated from the excluded positions, arguing that Schulman reformulates queer kinship as the locus of social change"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003451976
ER  -