The politics of silence /
The author "exemplifies poignantly and authentically the principles of the [National Book] Foundation's informing ideals, taking the 'Writing Life' as his all-encompassing metaphor and transcending it. He has reached down excruciatingly deep to grasp the sources for his very iden...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington [D.C.] :
Library of Congress,
1993.
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| Series: | National Book Week lectures.
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| Summary: | The author "exemplifies poignantly and authentically the principles of the [National Book] Foundation's informing ideals, taking the 'Writing Life' as his all-encompassing metaphor and transcending it. He has reached down excruciatingly deep to grasp the sources for his very identity as a man, a gay man ... Paul Monette uses himself as a touchstone for the emotions of a generation invaded by AIDS. In so doing, he has shaped the raw materials of self-awareness into an art form ... [He] feels an obligation to come out, in all senses of that expression, with what has been on his mind since adolescence, so that others wanting to cross that line will join him, when they are ready."--Neil Baldwin (Introduction). |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies collection by The Cushing Library. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 21 pages : portrait ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0844408085 9780844408088 |