Resumen de What Remains of (Un-)Grievability in Hollinghurst's and Tóibín's AIDS Fiction
This chapter explores the diverse reactions of gay literature to the homophobic fantasies resulting from the AIDS crisis. More specifically, I analyse what remains in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty and Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship after the overall sense of loss of AIDS dystopia. To do so, the chapter makes use of the poetics of elegy and melancholia as well as Butler’s concept of (un)grievability. Although Hollinghurst’s and Tóibín’s novels address what remains of the crisis mentioned above, they do it in a different fashion. The Line of Beauty focuses on the posthumous (un)grievability of oversexualised gays and scenarios in melancholic terms. By contrast, in The Blackwater Lightship, what remains is the de-sexualised gay body of the protagonist, whose redemptive death paves the way for a more promising future in Ireland.
