Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, professor, literary icon, and political activist.

Life

Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'", Sontag became an international cultural and intellectual celebrity. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Her often provocative essays and speeches sometimes drew criticism. The New York Review of Books called her "one of the most influential critics of her generation" [1].

Books

Articles, papers, reviews

• "Film and Theatre", The Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Autumn, 1966):24-37
• "At the same time... (the novelist and moral reasoning)", English Studies in Africa, 48:1, 2005:5-17
• "An argument about beauty", Dædalus, (Fall 2005):208-2013

Collections of essays

• Against Interpretation (includes "Notes on 'Camp'"), 1966
• Styles of Radical Will, 1969
• Under the Sign of Saturn, 1980
• Where the Stress Falls, 2001
• Regarding the Pain of Others, 2002
• At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, 2007

Monographs

• On Photography, 1977
• Illness as Metaphor, 1978
• AIDS and Its Metaphors (a continuation of Illness as Metaphor), 1988
• Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003

Articles, papers, reviews about Susan Sontag

• "Art and Conssciousness" (Susan Sontag interviewed by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta), Performing Arts Journal", 80 (2005):1–9