Awards

• Winner of <PrizeName>Winner in the 2003 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Competition in the Trade Illustrated category.</PrizeName> 2003
• Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, Trade Illustrated Category, 2003 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.</PrizeName> 2003
• Winner of AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show Design Awards: Trade Illustrated Category 2003.
• Winner of Winner in the 2003 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Competition in the Trade Illustrated category. 2003
• Winner of Winner in the 2003 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Competition in the Trade Illustrated category.</PrizeName> 2003
• Winner of Winner, Trade Illustrated Category, 2003 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. 2003

Overview

In Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerous identification with the moralistic repudiation of homosexuality by the wider society. With the 1993 march on Washington for lesbian and gay rights, it became clear that AIDS no longer determined the agenda of gay politics; it had been displaced by traditional rights issues such as gay marriage and the right to serve in the military. Journalist Andrew Sullivan, notorious for pronouncing the AIDS epidemic over, even claimed that once those few rights had been won, the gay rights movement would no longer have a reason to exist. Crimp challenges such complacency, arguing that not only is the AIDS epidemic far from over, but that its determining role in queer politics has never been greater.

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A history of recent activism written with critical intelligence... Alan W. Grose Lambda Book Report Crimp is one of our greatest voices and Melancholia and Moralism demonstrates importance of his role in the AIDS crisis. Thomas McGovern Afterimage For all its fiercely and finely argued points, Melancholia and Moralism is a deeply sympathetic book. Richard Kim The Nation In his searing writings, Crimp takes on those who would suppress the exuberant gay sexual revolution. McGovern a&u With HIV infections on the rise, our heath care systems in disarray, we need his righteous voice more than ever. Thomas McGovern Afterimage Melancholia and Moralism marks the first time that Crimp's own writings on AIDS have been collected in a single volume. Richard Kim The Nation

A history of recent activism written with critical intelligence... -- Alan W. Grose, Lambda Book Report In his searing writings, Crimp takes on those who would suppress the exuberant gay sexual revolution. -- McGovern, a&u Melancholia and Moralism marks the first time that Crimp's own writings on AIDS have been collected in a single volume. -- Richard Kim, The Nation With HIV infections on the rise, our heath care systems in disarray, we need his righteous voice more than ever. -- Thomas McGovern, Afterimage Crimp is one of our greatest voices and Melancholia and Moralism demonstrates importance of his role in the AIDS crisis. -- Thomas McGovern, Afterimage

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Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum's Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, both published by the MIT Press.

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