The third chapter examines how the reworking of the prescribed parameters of the popular romance novel helped extend the audience for AIDS literature, analyzes the particular adoptions and revisions of Pearl Cleage in her best-selling novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day..., and considers Robert Ferro's novel Second Son, an important text in the AIDS canon that scholars of literature and/or the epidemic often misread while experts on the popular romance ignore because they fail to investigate the gay romance market.... n Douglas Crimp, Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002): 28. ... 1 9 Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor a#39;s Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS (New York:anbsp;...
Title | : | Rupture and Repair: Literature, Genre and the AIDS Epidemic |
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Publisher | : | ProQuest - 2008 |
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