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If Memory Serves - Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (Paperback)
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If Memory Serves - Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (Paperback)
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The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and
gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians,
commentators, and academics instructed gay 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.
Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory,
If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of
contemporary queer culture from the suppression and repression of
gay memory. Drawing on a rich archive of videos, films, television
shows, novels, monuments, paintings, and sculptures created in the
wake of the epidemic, the authors reveal a resistance among critics
to valuing-even recognizing-the inscription of gay memory in art,
literature, popular culture, and the built environment. Castiglia
and Reed explore such topics as the unacknowledged ways in which
the popular sitcom Will and Grace circulated gay subcultural
references to awaken a desire for belonging among young viewers;
the post-traumatic (un)rememberings of queer theory; and the
generation of "ideality politics" in the art of Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, the film Chuck & Buck, and the independent
video Video Remains. Inspired by Alasdair MacIntyre's insight that
"the possession of a historical identity and the possession of a
social identity coincide," Castiglia and Reed demonstrate that
memory is crafted in response to inadequacies in the present-and
therefore a constructive relation to the past is essential to the
imagining of a new future.
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