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Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary by Eric Michaels

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February–March 1991, no. 128

Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary by Eric Michaels

Empress Publishing, 197 pp, $19.95 pb

Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary by Eric Michaels

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February–March 1991, no. 128

I first came across the name of Eric Michaels through a review article he published in the journal Art & Text titled ‘Para-Ethnography’. The article rigorously critiqued Chatwin’s The Songlines and Sally Morgan’s My Place, situating them as ‘para-ethnographic’ texts. It was very impressive. The note at the end remarked that ‘Eric died on 24 August 1988 after a long period of illness’. I heard later on that he had died of AIDS.

Ken Gelder reviews 'Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary' by Eric Michaels

Unbecoming: An AIDS Diary

by Eric Michaels

Empress Publishing, 197 pp, $19.95 pb