In this Book
- Remembering the AIDS Quilt
- 2011
- Book
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
summary
A collaborative creation unlike any other, the Names Project Foundation’s AIDS Memorial Quilt has played an invaluable role in shattering the silence and stigma that surrounded the epidemic in the first years of its existence. Designed by Cleve Jones, the AIDS Quilt is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Since its conception in 1987, the Quilt has transformed the cultural and political responses to AIDS in the U.S. Representative of both marginalized and mainstream peoples, the Quilt contains crucial material and symbolic implications for mourning the dead, and the treatment and prevention of AIDS. However, the project has raised numerous questions concerning memory, activism, identity, ownership, and nationalism, as well as issues of sexuality, race, class, and gender. As thought-provoking as the Quilt itself, this diverse collection of essays by ten prominent rhetorical scholars provides a rich experience of the AIDS Quilt, incorporating a variety of perspectives, critiques, and interpretations.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-x
- Prologue | Cleve Jones
- pp. xi-xxxvi
- The Mourning After
- p. xxxvii
- Part 1: Emergence
- p. 1
- Part 2: Movement
- p. 67
- Q.U.I.L.T.: A Patchwork of Reflections
- pp. 69-100
- Part 3: Transformation
- p. 187
- Experiencing the Quilt
- pp. 299-308
- Contributors
- pp. 309-313
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609172299
Related ISBN(s)
9781611860078, 9781628951578, 9781628961577
MARC Record
OCLC
778436387
Pages
383
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011