Confronting AIDS Through Literature

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Confronting AIDS Through Literature is written by Judith Laurence Pastore and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 025201989X (ISBN 10) and 9780252019890 (ISBN 13).

This anthology offers an array of viewpoints on the use of literature to confront AIDS. In Part 1, the authors (a.o. Michael Denneny, Paul Reed, James W. Jones) chronicle the increasing significance of AIDS in fiction, journalism, drama, and contemporary spirituality. Part 2 offers a sampling of creative writing on AIDS with fragments by a.o. Paul Monette, Melvin Dixon, Joel Redon, David Feinberg. Part 3 shows how AIDS literature can enlighten and energize humanities, composition, and medical students