Writing AIDS : gay literature, language, and analysis / Timothy F. Murphy and Suzanne Poirier, editors.

Other author Murphy, Timothy F., 1955-
Other author Poirier, Suzanne.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©1993.
Descriptionviii, 352 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Gay peoples' writings, American--History and criticism.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--Male authors. --History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--Male authors. --History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature--History. --20th century.
Gay peoples' writings--History and criticism.
Gay men in literature.

SeriesBetween men--between women
Between men--between women. ^A274888
Contents On writing AIDS : introduction / Suzanne Poirier -- The mirror and the tank : "AIDS," subjectivity, and the rhetoric of activism / Lee Edelman -- The language of war in AIDS discourse / Michael S. Sherry -- Plague in Germany, 1939/1989 : cultural images of race, space, and disease / Sander L. Gilman -- Fantom images : Hervé Guibert and the writing of "sida" in France / Emily Apter -- Apocalyptic utterance in Edmund White's "An oracle" / Richard Dellamora -- Eloquence and epitaph : Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in responses to the death of Max Robinson / Phillip Brian Harper -- AIDS 101 / Peter M. Bowen -- AIDS narratives on television : whose story? / Paula A. Treichler -- "And once I had it all" : AIDS narratives and memories of an American dream / John M. Clum -- Refusing the name : the absence of AIDS in recent American gay male fiction / James W. Jones.
Contents Immersive and counterimmersive writing about AIDS : the achievement of Paul Monette's Love alone / Joseph Cady -- Dante on Fire Island : reinventing heaven in the AIDS elegy / James Miller -- Testimony / Timothy F. Murphy -- Annotated bibliography of AIDS literature, 1982-91 / Franklin Brooks and Timothy F. Murphy.
Bibliography note"Annotated bibliography of AIDS literature, 1982-91 / Franklin Brooks and Timothy F. Murphy": p. [321]-339.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92020373
ISBN0231078641 (acid-free paper)

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