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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.
SUZANNE POIRIER, On Writing AIDS; LEE EDELMAN, The Mirror and the Tank - AIDS, Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism; MICHAEL S. SHERRY, The Language of War in AIDS Discourse; SANDER L. GILMAN, Plague in Germany, 1939/1989 - Cultural Images of Race, Space, and Disease; EMILY APTER, Fantom Images - Herve Guibert and the Writing of "sida" in France; RICHARD DELLAMORA, Apocalyptic Utterance in Edmund White's "An Oracle"; PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER, Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson; PETER M. BOWEN, AIDS 101; PAULA A. TREICHLER, AIDS Narratives on Television - Whose Story?; JOHN M. CLUM, "And Once I Had It All" - AIDS Narratives and Memories Of An American Dream; JAMES W. JONES, Refusing the Name - The Absence of AIDS in Recent American Gay Male Fiction; JOSEPH CADY, Immersive and Counter-Immersive Writing About AIDS - The Achievement of Paul Monette's "Love Alone"; JAMES MILLER, Dante on Fire Island - Reinventing Heaven in the AIDS Elegy; Timothy F. MURPHY, Testimony; FRANKLIN BROOKS AND TIMOTHY F. MURPHY, Annotated Bibliography of AIDS Literature, 1982-91.
