Writing AIDS

Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis

By: Timothy F. Murphy (Editor), Suzanne Poirier (Editor)

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Hardcover | 29 April 1993 | Edition Number 1

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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Society & Culture Social Groups Gay & Lesbian Studies Gay Studies for Gay Men Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays Social Services & Welfare

Social Welfare & Social Services Social Work Psychology

On Writing AIDS: Introduction	p. 1
The Mirror and the Tank: "AIDS," Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism	p. 9
The Language of War in AIDS Discourse	p. 39
Plague in Germany, 1939/1989: Cultural Images of Race, Space, and Disease	p. 54
Fantom Images: Herve Guibert and the Writing of "sida" in France	p. 83
Apocalyptic Utterance in Edmund White's "An Oracle"	p. 98
Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson	p. 117
AIDS 101	p. 140
AIDS Narratives on Television: Whose Story?	p. 161
"And Once I Had It All: Narratives and Memories of an American Dream	p. 200
Refusing the Name: The Absence of AIDS in Recent American Gay Male Fiction	p. 225
Immersive and Counterimmersive Writing About AIDS: The Achievement of Paul Monette's Love Alone	p. 244
Dante on Fire Island: Reinventing Heaven in the AIDS Elegy	p. 265
Testimony	p. 306
Annotated Bibliography of AIDS Literature, 1982-91	p. 321
Contributors	p. 340
Index	p. 343
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