Böcker av Christopher Castiglia

This special issue of American Literature asks, what's new about the "new aesthetics"?

How gay memory suppressed after AIDS returns in visions of sexual identity and social idealism

Focuses on US citizens' democratic impulse: their ability to imagine and to work with others to create democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. This book contends that citizens of the early US were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent interiors of their own bodies.