Love and Anger: Essays on Aids, Activism, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781560239307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 204 str.

Peter Franzblau Cohen

Opis

Containing both literary analysis and interviews with activist, Love and Anger integrates face and fiction. It explains AIDS activism, the politics of AIDS, and the attitudes and feeling of those affected by the disease.

Spis treści

Contents Acknowledgments

• Introduction
• Part One: AIDS, Gay Culture, and the Politics of Class
• Introduction to Part One
• Chapter 1. Acting Up: AIDS and the Politics of Class
• Reputation
• Goals
• Tactics
• Epilogue
• Chapter 2. Consumption and Cure: Paul Monette, Larry Kramer, Sarah Schulman
• “All They Needed”: Paul Monette's Afterlife (Afterlife in italics)
• “The Same As You”: Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart (The..Heart in italics)
• Unreciprocated Gestures: Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble (People.. Trouble in italics)
• Part Two: Love and Politics
• Chapter 3. Strange Bedfellows: Writing Love and Politics in Angels in America (it) and The Normal Heart (it)
• The Normal Heart (it)
• Angels in America (it)
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4. ACT UP as Gay Politics
• Dress Like You Would for a Date
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Research Methodology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

O autorze

Cohen, Peter F