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** On behalf of Stella Fundingsland, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ** Please post the below message to MECCSA. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu<http://www.upress.umn.edu/> ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ _______ How gay memory suppressed after AIDS returns in visions of sexual identity and social idealism IF MEMORY SERVES: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past By Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed University of Minnesota Press | 272 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-7611-8 | paperback | $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-7610-1 | cloth | $75.00 An exploration of the struggle over gay memory in the decades following the onset of AIDS, If Memory Serves argues that without memory there can be no future. Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed offer a new perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture from the suppression and repression of gay memory. PRAISE FOR IF MEMORY SERVES: "If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry—that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity—toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present." —Jonathan David Katz, State University of New York at Buffalo "If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory." —Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Christopher Castiglia is liberal arts research professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst and Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy and coeditor with Glenn Hendler of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel, Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate. Christopher Reed is professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity and Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas, the editor of Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, and A Roger Fry Reader, editor and translator of The Chrysanthemum Papers: “The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthemum” and Other Documents of French Japonisme, and coeditor with Nancy Green of the exhibition catalog A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/if-memory-serves Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 ________________ Stella Fundingsland Marketing Assistant University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Ave. S., Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 www.upress.umn.edu<http://www.upress.umn.edu/> 612.627.1933 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Einar Thorsen, PhD Lecturer in Journalism and Communication The Media School, Bournemouth University Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask]<applewebdata:[log in to unmask]> Twitter: http://twitter.com/einarthorsen Blog: http://multimediajournalism.info/ Phone: +44 (0)1202 968838 Convenor Journalism Research Group: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/imcr/cjcr/ Programme Coordinator MA Journalism and New Media: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/MAJNMF Communication Officer of MeCCSA: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. 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