Writing AIDS – Gay Literature, Language & Analysis (Paper): Gay Literature, Language and Analysis (Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies) - Softcover

Murphy, Timothy F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023107865X ISBN 13: 9780231078658

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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

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From the Author:

The Beginning and the Now of AIDS Literature
As we approach the end of the second decade of AIDS, there is more and more writing about the epidemic, about what it means to gay life and culture, about its impact beyond gay circles. It would be harder to put this volume together today than it was earlier in the decade. In a sense, though, many of the issues at stake even now are discussed in this volume: moralistic interpretations of disease and sexual life, displaced notions of what it means to "cure" a disease, misinformation and the depth of prevailing assumptions HIV, and the role of writers as respondents to one of the most important health crises of the 20th century. Though AIDS literature is now several "generations" old, this volume remains essential to theorizing its many and contested meanings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 023107865X
• ISBN 13: 9780231078658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364