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The Gentrification of the Mind

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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 t...
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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.
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Price: $21.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 02 September 2013
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520280069
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

“Schulman is brilliant at conveying how devastating and surreal it was to live during the AIDS crisis. . . . [The book is] teeming with ideas, necessary commentary, refreshing connections and examination of the status quo.”
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.
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
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