AIDS--the literary response /

AIDS--the literary response / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson. - New York : Toronto : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. - ix, 233 p. ; 24 cm.

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. 228-230.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-224) and index. Filmography: p. 225-227.

Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year: a model for stories of plagues / Music for a closing: responses to AIDS in three American novels / Suburban AIDS: Alice Hoffman's At Risk / Gay genocide as literary trope / When a risk group is not a risk group: the absence of AIDS panic in Peter Cameron's fiction / BabaluaiyƩ: searching for the text of a pandemic / The Mystical Body: Frans Kellendonk and the Dutch literary response to AIDS / The best of times, the worst of times: the emerging literature of AIDS in France / "All the elements of a good movie": cinematic responses to the AIDS pandemic / AIDS enters the American theatre: As Is and The Normal Heart / Rage and remembrance: The AIDS plays / AIDS to remembrance: the uses of elegy / The repression of the returned: AIDS and allegory / Larry Kramer and the rhetoric of AIDS / The rhetoric of the NAMES Project AIDS quilt: reading the text(ile) / The way we teach now: three approaches to AIDS literature / Laurel Brodsley -- Joseph Dewey -- Judith Laurence Pastore -- Les Wright -- Myles Weber -- Barbara Browning -- Gert Hekma -- David Wetsel -- Kevin J. Harty -- Joel Shatzky -- D. S. Lawson -- Gregory Woods -- James Morrison -- David Bergman -- Judy Elsley -- Annie Dawid.

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AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Homosexuality and literature--History--20th century.
Gay men's writings--History and criticism.
Gay men in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century

PN771 / .A64 1992

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