SOURCE: "The Plague and Its Texts: AIDS and Recent American Fiction," in Journal of American Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 73-80.
In the following essay, Jones discusses three novels by gay writers to illustrate how the use of plague as a metaphor for AIDS stigmatizes the victims of the disease.
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