Jean Pierre Boule is Professor of Contemporary French Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

Professor Boulé’s readings of specific texts are alert and frequently shrewd. The issues he has addressed are important ones: his emphasis on the position of women in French AIDS literature is valuable; his psychoanalytic characterizations – particularly of Simonin and Dreuilhe – underscore a dimension of the experience of AIDS people that has rarely been acknowledged or explored.Ross Chambers, University of Michigan

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I AIDS Fiction1 Laygues: The Ambiguity of Witnessing2 Juliette: Masculinist Desires and Sexualities3 Winer: Masculinity, Grief and SexualityPART II AIDS Testimony4 Testimony, Self-Avowal and ConfessionSimonin: The Forgotten WitnessAron: The Overlooked Witness5 Dreuilhe: Metaphor/Phantasy and MobilisationConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex