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Aid Crisis
Aid Fiction
Aid Virus
AIDS
AIDS Pandemic
Author_Steven F. Kruger
Biological Virus
boiled
Boiled Frog Syndrome
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Cellular DNA
Computer Viruses
dugas
epidemic narratives
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frog
gan
Gay Men
Genocidal Plots
gentle
Gentle Warriors
Heterosexual Aid
HIV Illness
Host Cell's DNA
Intentional Entity
Irreversible Decline
Late Twentieth Century Western Culture
Linguistic Metaphors
masculinity studies
medical humanities
narrative constructions of AIDS
pink
Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia
Pneumocystis Pneumonia
queer theory
Selfish DNA
sociocultural epidemiology
stigma and disease
syndrome
tangled
triangle
Viral Genetic Information
Virus
warriors
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138966406
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
