| Unbecoming Contributor(s): Michaels, Eric (Author), Foss, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822320142 ISBN-13: 9780822320142 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: In 1982, the American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels went to Australia to research the impact of television on remote aboriginal communities. Over the next five years, until his death, he became a major intellectual presence in Australia. Unbecoming is Michaels's gritty, provocative, and intellectually powerful account of living with AIDS - a chronicle of the last year of his life as he became increasingly ill, Michaels's diary offers a forceful and ironic rumination on the cultural phenomenon of AIDS, how it relates to his concerns as both an anthropologist and a gay man, and the failure of medical and governmental institutions to come to terms with the disease. Like the AIDS testimony of artist David Wojnarowicz and filmmaker Derek Jarman, Unbecoming provides a view of the AIDS epidemic from a distinctly new vantage point. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Medical | Aids & Hiv - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97007920 |
| Series: Series Q |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.72" W x 9.05" (0.55 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1982, the American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels went to Australia to research the impact of television on remote aboriginal communities. Over the next five years, until his death, he became a major intellectual presence in Australia. Unbecoming is Michaels's gritty, provocative, and intellectually powerful account of living with AIDS--a chronicle of the last year of his life as he became increasingly ill. Michaels's diary offers a forceful and ironic rumination on the cultural phenomenon of AIDS, how it relates to his concerns as both an anthropologist and a gay man, and the failure of medical and governmental institutions to come to terms with the disease. Like the AIDS testimony of artist David Wojnarowicz and filmmaker Derek Jarman, Unbecoming provides a view of the AIDS epidemic from a distinctly new vantage point. |