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Aids in cultural bodies : cripting the absent subject (1980-2010) / by Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Gokulnath Ammanathil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venkatesan, Sathyaraj, author.
- Ammanathil, Gokulnath, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- AIDS (Disease) in literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (122 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book examines the various psychosocial and sexual ordeals of African American people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWH/PLWAs) as depicted in African American literary narratives dealing with HIV/AIDS published from 1980 to 2010. Central to these texts are the psychosocial and sexual challenges faced by the African American PLWH/PLWAs and the various adaptive strategies they choose to come to terms with their HIV/AIDS identity.Although PLWH/PLWAs irrespective of race confront these brutal realities, the intersection of a mythologized black sexuality, homophobia and intra-community marginalizat
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9197-5
- OCLC:
- 1246315657
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