Gabriel Duckels
Biographic Data
| ID | 4620449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Duckels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Duckels |
| SIGNATURE | DUCKELS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0294-5417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Young Adult Novels, Aids Pedagogy, and Queer History
This article explores the role of young adult novels (or “problem novels”) in constructing ideas about the impact of AIDS on gay men in the United States from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The article utilizes Jennifer Miller’s concept of critical optimism to argue that it is insufficient to read these novels as merely propping up a dominant ideology of homonormativity. It explores the relationship between melodrama and pedagogy in cultural res…
Aids melodrama now
This short article compares the British TV show It’s a Sin and the American TV show Pose as landmark new examples of AIDS melodrama – a genre of tear-jerking, mass-market AIDS narrative which has renewed popularity due to contemporary investment in the queer histories of AIDS in the United Kingdom and the United States. While both shows deploy melodramatic aesthetics to stage the grief, virtue, and injustices endured by queer people living with H…
From heterosexualisation to memorialisation
This article interrogates the representation of AIDS-related deaths of gay men in Young Adult (YA) literature. As Eric Tribunella argues, traumatic loss is integral to the ideological work of narratives for young readers; death is often a catalyst for heteronormative maturation in an adolescent subject. The first YA novels about the AIDS-related deaths of gay men focused on securing the heterosexual development of an adolescent onlooker amidst an…
Literary Studies Deconstructed
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Literary Studies Deconstructed
From heterosexualisation to memorialisation
This article interrogates the representation of AIDS-related deaths of gay men in Young Adult (YA) literature. As Eric Tribunella argues, traumatic loss is integral to the ideological work of narratives for young readers; death is often a catalyst for heteronormative maturation in an adolescent subject. The first YA novels about the AIDS-related deaths of gay men focused on securing the heterosexual development of an adolescent onlooker amidst an…
Aids melodrama now
This short article compares the British TV show It’s a Sin and the American TV show Pose as landmark new examples of AIDS melodrama – a genre of tear-jerking, mass-market AIDS narrative which has renewed popularity due to contemporary investment in the queer histories of AIDS in the United Kingdom and the United States. While both shows deploy melodramatic aesthetics to stage the grief, virtue, and injustices endured by queer people living with H…
Young Adult Novels, Aids Pedagogy, and Queer History
This article explores the role of young adult novels (or “problem novels”) in constructing ideas about the impact of AIDS on gay men in the United States from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The article utilizes Jennifer Miller’s concept of critical optimism to argue that it is insufficient to read these novels as merely propping up a dominant ideology of homonormativity. It explores the relationship between melodrama and pedagogy in cultural res…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)