The gentrification of the mind : witness to a lost imagination / Sarah Schulman.

Main entry:

Schulman, Sarah, 1958-

Title & Author:

The gentrification of the mind : witness to a lost imagination / Sarah Schulman.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 179 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Introduction: Making record from memory -- The dynamics of death and replacement -- The gentrification of AIDS -- Realizing that they're gone -- The gentrification of creation -- The gentrification of gay politics -- The gentrification of our literature -- Conclusion: Degentrification : the pleasure of being uncomfortable.

Summary:

In this memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996) in New York, CUNY Professor of English Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the queer culture, cheap rents, and virbrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight, replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and brings it to life, sharing vivid memories of her avant-garde queer friends and recreating the early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with analysis, Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation's imagination and the consequences of that loss.--From publisher description.

Resources:
Rutgers restricted

ISBN:

9780520264779 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520264770 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520280069 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520280067 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

AIDS (Disease) Social aspects.
AIDS (Disease) United States.
Gentrification United States.
Urban renewal United States.
Urbanization United States.
AIDS (Disease)
Urbanization.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Sida Aspect social.
Sida États-Unis.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) États-Unis.
Rénovation urbaine États-Unis.
Urbanisation États-Unis.
Sida.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
Health and Fitness.
Gentrification
Urban renewal
HIV/AIDS.
STDs.
Aids sociala aspekter.
Aids i litteraturen.
Gentrifiering.
Urbanisering.
Amerikansk litteratur.
United States

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305783
Call No.: BIB 251633
Status: Available

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