Confronting AIDS Through Literature: The Responsibilities of Representation

Judith Laurence Pastore

University of Illinois Press, 1993 - Literary Collections - 267 pages

This anthology offers an array of viewpoints on the use of literature to confront AIDS. In Part 1, the authors (a.o. Michael Denneny, Paul Reed, James W. Jones) chronicle the increasing significance of AIDS in fiction, journalism, drama, and contemporary spirituality. Part 2 offers a sampling of creative writing on AIDS with fragments by a.o. Paul Monette, Melvin Dixon, Joel Redon, David Feinberg. Part 3 shows how AIDS literature can enlighten and energize humanities, composition, and medical students

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• What Are the Responsibilities of Representing AIDS?: 15
• AIDS Writing and the Creation of a Gay Culture: 36
• Requiem Evita: 55
• Writing about AIDS for Young Adults: 65
• Terrors of Resurrection by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: 79
• Early AIDS Fiction: 91
• AIDS and Gays: 103
• The Very Same: 145
• Voices: 152
• Chapter 11 Bloodstream: 158
• Despair: 164
• Spring and Fall: 174
• The Federal Bureau of Blood Inspection: 181
• Teaching Strategies: 218
• Teaching about AIDS through Literature: 233
• Annotated Bibliography: 249
• Notes on Contributors: 265

Bibliographic information

• Title: Confronting AIDS Through Literature: The Responsibilities of Representation
• Editor: Judith Laurence Pastore
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0252062949, 9780252062940
• Length: 267 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Subjects & Themes / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies; Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity