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1 Holding the Man : Tragedy and the Literature of AIDS Alan Sandison , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: 'Unemployed at Last!' : Essays on Australian Literature to 2002 for Julian Croft 2002; (p. 187-209) The object of this article is 'to examine the possibility of a revival of tragedy manifested in a certain sector of contemporary writing': books that are the product fo the AIDS epidemic. After a general introductory section on tragedy and humanism, it extensively discusses Conigrave's autobiography Holding the Man (1995) under the aspect of the concept of tragedy.
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