Literary and visual representations of HIV/AIDS : forty years later / Aimee Pozorski, Jennifer J. Lavoie, and Christine J. Cynn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pozorski, Aimee L. (Aimee Lynn), editor.

Lavoie, Jennifer Jean, 1985- editor.

Cynn, Christine, editor.

Series:

Reading trauma and memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease) in literature.

AIDS (Disease) in art.

Physical Description:

vii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Literary and visual representations of HIV/AIDS : an introduction / Christine Cynn and Aimee Pozorski

Countering the plague : AIDS Theatre as a site of memory / Dirk Visser

Poetry before protease / Nels P. Highberg

Early representations of "it" : AIDS, The American canon, and Robert Ferro's Second son / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Borrowed time, body counts, and the nearness of others : three approaches to AIDS memoirs / Jennifer Lavoie

Guibert before Guibert : AIDS and literary creation / Mariarosa Loddo

The dream, the disease, and the disaster : on Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding village / Shelley W. Chan

Abortion and family as HIV prevention strategies : Kitia Touré's Les gestes ou la vie / Christine Cynn

When "safe" isn't safe : reflecting on the role of science in the production of harmful discourse of HIV/AIDS / Alison Patev

Exceptional preparations : pharmaceutical interventions, neoliberal queerness, and Truvada / Andy Eicher

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Literary and visual representations of HIV/AIDS.

ISBN:

9781498584463

1498584462

OCLC:

1114422603