AIDS Recognition: Queer Consciousness in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner, 2022
As well as having been stamped as the hallmark of queer drama in the literature of North America,... more As well as having been stamped as the hallmark of queer drama in the literature of North America, Angels in America contributed in great extent to raise awareness for the queer and AIDS activism which was having its heyday at the beginning of the 1990s. Angels in America, published in 1991, conveys the story of the 1980s detached and isolated communities of HIV positive people, Jews, Mormons, and homosexuals as the AIDS epidemic striking at its most destructive period in North America. I will attempt to analyse the ways in which the AIDS crisis and queer awareness are intertwined into the long-lasting discussion of identity politics in Angels in America, and I will both argue the effects of the underrepresentation of different minority communities on different characters, and how the play criticizes the misconceptions about these minorities.
AIDS Recognition: Queer Consciousness in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner, 2022
As well as having been stamped as the hallmark of queer drama in the literature of North America,... more As well as having been stamped as the hallmark of queer drama in the literature of North America, Angels in America contributed in great extent to raise awareness for the queer and AIDS activism which was having its heyday at the beginning of the 1990s. Angels in America, published in 1991, conveys the story of the 1980s detached and isolated communities of HIV positive people, Jews, Mormons, and homosexuals as the AIDS epidemic striking at its most destructive period in North America. I will attempt to analyse the ways in which the AIDS crisis and queer awareness are intertwined into the long-lasting discussion of identity politics in Angels in America, and I will both argue the effects of the underrepresentation of different minority communities on different characters, and how the play criticizes the misconceptions about these minorities.
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