Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8448-7 (ISBN)
Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media. This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and East Asia.
Christine Cynn is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Jennifer Lavoie is instructor of English and American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.
Chapter 1: Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: An Introduction, Christine Cynn and Aimee Pozorski
Chapter 2: Countering the Plague: AIDS Theatre as a Site of Memory, Dirk Visser
Chapter 3: Poetry before Protease, Nels P. Highberg
Chapter 4: Early Representations of “IT”: AIDS, The American Canon, and Robert Ferro’s Second Son, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Chapter 5: Borrowed Time, Body Counts, and the Nearness of Others: Three Approaches to AIDS Memoirs, Jennifer Lavoie
Chapter 6: Guibert before Guibert: AIDS and Literary Creation, Mariarosa Loddo
Chapter 7: The Dream, the Disease, and the Disaster: On Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village, Shelley W. Chan
Chapter 8: Abortion and Family as HIV Prevention Strategies: Kitia Touré’s Les gestes ou la vie, Christine Cynn
Chapter 9: When “Safe” Isn’t Safe: Reflecting on the Role of Science in the Production of Harmful Discourse of HIV/AIDS, Alison Patev
Chapter 10: Exceptional PrEParations: Pharmaceutical Interventions, Neoliberal Queerness, and Truvada, Andy Eicher
Chapter 11: “We should be embracing the infected, the HIV-positive, and showering them not only with love, but with medical care and psychosocial services”: An Interview with Michael Broder, Jennifer Lavoie and Michael Broder
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Reading Trauma and Memory |
| Co-Autor | Michael Broder, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 304 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-8448-9 / 1498584489 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-8448-7 / 9781498584487 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich
