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Love and Anger - Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics (Paperback)
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Love and Anger - Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics (Paperback)
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Love and Anger: Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics is one of
the first books to take an interdisciplinary approach to AIDS
activism and politics by looking at the literary response to the
disease, class issues, and the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
Containing both literary analysis and interviews with activists,
Love and Anger will help you understand the unique struggle of a
certain class of gay men, why the author challenges the belief that
ACT UP is a radical group, and why the love story is a central part
of the literary response to AIDS. Examining ACT UP in relation to
class issues, Love and Anger discusses how, for certain middle-to
upper-middle-class men in the group, ACT UP represented a political
response not to fundamental social inequalities, but to the fact
that their class position could not benefit them in the absence of
an AIDS cure. In addition, you will gain insight into the political
methods and goals of ACT UP through interviews with ACT UP members,
and find out why the group is sometimes misperceived as being
radical, "too gay, " or "not gay enough." Different from many other
recent works, Love and Anger also combines literary analysis with
fieldwork in order to examine the literary response to AIDS from
historical and sociological contexts, not just a literary context.
Drawing on the fields of anthropology, sociology, political
science, history, and literary studies, this text provides you with
an original interpretation of a number of novels and plays,
including: Afterlife, a novel by Paul Monette, and The Normal
Heart, a play by Larry Kramer, both of which envision the return of
the class privileges that certain gay men had before AIDS emerged
People in Trouble, a novel by Sarah Schulman, which challenges gay
men to stop striving for the privileges of straight males and
instead to focus on an AIDS movement that will support all groups
affected by the epidemic Angels in America, a play by Tony Kushner,
which demonstrates the incompatibility of love and political
struggle in literature about AIDSBy examining AIDS activism and
politics through the love story and through real-life examples such
as ACT UP, Love and Anger integrates fact and fiction in a
scholarly, yet comprehensible manner. It will give you a clearer
understanding of the issues surrounding AIDS activism and politics,
as well as give you insight into the attitudes and feelings of
those affected by the disease.
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