AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and ScienceTaylor & Francis, 1996 - 404 páginas This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay men, part of a battle over masculinity, and thus largely excluding women with AIDS from public attention-the book considers how such discourses have shaped narrative understandings of AIDS. On the one hand, AIDS is seen as an invariably fatal weakening of an individual's bodily defenses, a depiction often used to reconfirm an identification between disease and a weak and vulnerable gayness. On the other hand, AIDS is understood in terms of an epidemic attributable to gay immorality or unnaturalness. The fiction of AIDS depends upon these two narratives, with one major subgenre of AIDS novel presenting narratives of personal illness, decline, and death, and a second focusing on epidemic spread. These novels also question the narrative structures upon which they depend, intervening particularly against the homophobia of those structures, though also sometimes reinforcing it. |
Índice
AIDS and the Battlefields of Masculinity | 33 |
The Narratives of AIDS | 63 |
Irreversible Decline and Uncontrollable Spread | 73 |
Facing | 81 |
Frustrating Expectations | 88 |
Notes | 105 |
Gay and Other Subjects of AIDS | 111 |
John Weirs The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket | 163 |
Apocalyptic Conspiracies The Epidemiological | 205 |
123 | 221 |
Notes | 230 |
But Then What? Sarah Schulmans People in Trouble | 259 |
Bibliography of AIDS Literature | 303 |
Works Cited | 355 |
381 | |
111 | 197 |
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AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science Steven F. Kruger Vista previa restringida - 2013 |
AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science Steven F. Kruger No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Meddling with Mythology: AIDS and the Social Construction of Knowledge Rosaline S. Barbour,Guro Huby Vista previa restringida - 1998 |
The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances And Contemporary Art Petra Küppers Vista previa restringida - 2007 |