Introduction
Queer Kinship and the Culture Industry
Biopolitics of The Culture Industry
Sex and Kinship
The Scapegoating of Patient O
Thicker Than Blood
Monogamy as a Cure
A Simulacrum of Diversity
A Lifetime of Resistance
Activists and Bohemians
Forgetful Bohemians
Meaningful Kinship
Acting up for Justice
Witnessing Among Rats
“Familial Homophobia…”
“…and Its Consequences”
Unbearable Witnessing
No Country for the Rats
Towards Queer Kinship
Queer Fractures
One of Us
The Normal Love
Conclusion
Biography
Jarosław Milewski holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Łódź, where he currently works as a teaching assistant at the Department of American Literature. He is also an editorial secretary of InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies.
"[This volume] study contextualizes Schulman’s fiction within its historical and sociopolitical context, with a keen eye to the way fiction may serve as a gesture of “acting up” as it agitates for alternative imaginings of queer identities and collectives in crisis. Close textual analysis and contextualization lend the book the sort of academic rigor and cultural awareness we have come to expect of the Routledge series... Highly recommended. All readers."
--G. Sikorski, Anne Arundel Community College, CHOICE
