Unbecoming

"The diary is full of Michaels's rage and frustration; it is also full of a wild kind of humor that can, under extreme circumstances, be the heart's only alternative to feeling--to paraphrase Swift's epitaph--lacerated by indignation."--From the preface by Michael Moon

Sommario

Preface to the Duke Edition, by Michael Moon ix

Foreword, by Paul Foss xvii

Introduction, by Simon Watney xxi

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Info autore

Eric Michaels is the author of Bad Aboriginal Art, For a Cultural Future, and The Aboriginal Invention of Television. At the time of his death he was Lecturer in Media Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane. Michael Moon is the author of Disseminating Whitman. Simon Watney is the author of Policing Desire and Practices of Freedom (Duke University Press). Paul Foss is the editor and publisher of Art & Text.

Riassunto

The American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels was a major intellectual in Australia. This book is his provocative and intellectually powerful account of living with AIDS. This book offers an ironic rumination on the cultural phenomenon of AIDS. It also provides a view of the AIDS epidemic from a new vantage point.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eric Michaels, Michaels, Eric Michaels
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Foss (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.1997
• EAN: 9780822320050
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2005-0
• Pagine: 160
• Illustrazioni: 1 b&w photograph
• Serie: Series Q; Series Q
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie