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- Title
AIDS Writing in Crisis Times and Today.
- Authors
McDonald, Natalie Hope
- Abstract
This essay discusses the place of AIDS in gay literature during the crisis in the 1980s and 1990s and today. In the early years of the AIDS crisis literature dealing with the subject was used as a form of activism and education. AIDS writing has broadened as the disease spread from the gay population to be a broad-based public health problem. Along with the shift from a ghettoized AIDS literature, the content has changed from one of people dying from AIDS to people living with the disease. The essay discusses three phases of AIDS writing, an activist phase, characterized by Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," a confirmatory phase, seen in Paul Monette's "Borrowed Time," and a pluralist phase, defined by Michael Cunningham's "A Home at the End of the World."
- Subjects
AIDS in literature; ANGELS in America (Theatrical production); BORROWED Time: An AIDS Memoir (Book); HOME at the End of the World, A (Book); CUNNINGHAM, Michael, 1952-; KUSHNER, Tony, 1956-; MONETTE, Paul, 1945-1995
- Publication
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 4, p32
- ISSN
1532-1118
- Publication type
Essay