Description
Book SynopsisThis book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing.
Trade ReviewProfessor Boulé’s readings of specific texts are alert and frequently shrewd. The issues he has addressed are important ones: his emphasis on the position of women in French AIDS literature is valuable; his psychoanalytic characterizations – particularly of Simonin and Dreuilhe – underscore a dimension of the experience of AIDS people that has rarely been acknowledged or explored.
Ross Chambers, University of Michigan * University of Michigan *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I AIDS Fiction
- 1 Laygues: The Ambiguity of Witnessing
- 2 Juliette: Masculinist Desires and Sexualities
- 3 Winer: Masculinity, Grief and Sexuality
- PART II AIDS Testimony
- 4 Testimony, Self-Avowal and Confession
- Simonin: The Forgotten Witness
- Aron: The Overlooked Witness
- 5 Dreuilhe: Metaphor/Phantasy and Mobilisation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
