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'In Australia, AIDS life documents encompass a variety of forms and narrative styles,including quilt panels, interviews, articles by people living with HIV and AIDS, diaries, photographs and documentary film - as well as art, music and fiction. this study will only document and analyse a fraction of these materials, focusing on public writings. the texts examined here are mainly 'traditional' book-length life narratives, supplemented by one documentary film and two diaries. Other materials, including collections of interviews and shorter biographical works on people with HIV/AIDS, have not been excluded except when they directly contribute to the discourse as part of an emerging pattern during the last decade.' (From author's introduction p.105)
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Epigraph:There is a point, somewhere, usually in the future of a piece of
writing, in its rediscovery as something other than what it first was,
where memoir, recollection or diary turns into history...
-Stephen J. Williams
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Australian HIV/AIDS Life Writing
Subjects:
- Unbecoming : An AIDS Diary 1990 single work diary
- Someone You Know : A Friend's Farewell 1991 single work prose
- Take Me to Paris, Johnny 1993 single work autobiography
- Infected Queer: Notes of an Activist 1993 single work autobiography extract
- Holding the Man 1995 single work autobiography
- April Fool's Day : A Modern Tragedy 1993 single work autobiography biography
- Peter Allen : The Boy from Oz 1996 single work biography
- Screw Loose : Uncalled-For Memoirs 1997 single work autobiography
- Desirelines : An Unusual Family Memoir 1997 single work autobiography
- The Floor of Heaven: My Life in Theatre 2000 single work autobiography
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