The Gentrification of the Mind

Witness to a Lost Imagination
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-28006-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 228 g

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981–1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and brings it to life, filling these pages with vivid memories of her avant-garde queer friends and dramatically recreating the early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis, Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation’s imagination and the consequences of that loss.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulman, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making Record from Memory

Part I. Understanding the Past

1. The Dynamics of Death and Replacement

2. The Gentrification of AIDS

3. Realizing That They’re Gone

Part II. The Consequences Of Loss

4. The Gentrification of Creation

5. The Gentrification of Gay Politics

6. The Gentrification of Our Literature

Conclusion: Degentrification—The Pleasure of Being

Uncomfortable

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Schulman is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, journalist, and active participant citizen.