Revisiting Hiv/aids in French Culture - Raw Matters

This volume offers a multidisciplinary study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the French context from the 1980s to today through the concept of rawness. Exploring vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma in relation to disease, this collection provides important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revisiting Sites of Rawness, Queerness, and Vulnerability
Loïc Bourdeau and V. Hunter Capps
Chapter One: Transmitting It: Rawness and the Politics of HIV/AIDS Witnessing Today
David Caron
Chapter Two: Raw Writing: AIDS Autofiction and the Construction of Seropositive Subjectivity
V. Hunter Capps
Chapter Three: Kindling Kinships: Sexual Citizenship and Queer Constructions of Masculinity in the Works of Erik Rémès
Daniel. N. Maroun
Chapter Four: Covering Up: Condomless Sex, (Ir)responsibility, and Risk in France
Brian Troth
Chapter Five: "C'est Votre Choix" or, Private Identities and Public Militancy in the Second Decade of the AIDS Epidemic in France: The Case of Gay Porn Magazine Projet X
João Florêncio
Chapter Six: Viral Dances: Moving in Times of a Pandemic
Lucille Toth
Chapter Seven: State of Sexual Exception: SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and Sexual Citizenship in Pandemic Times
CJ Gomolka
Chapter Eight: Interview with Nicholas Giguère and Kevin Lambert
John Ashburn and Loïc Bourdeau
About the Contributors

About the author

Loïc Bourdeau is associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
V. Hunter Capps is postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the University at Buffalo.

Product details

• Authors: Loic Capps Bourdeau
• Assisted by: Loic Bourdeau (Editor), Loïc Bourdeau (Editor), V. Hunter Capps (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781793650085
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-008-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); France, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, HISTORY / Europe / France, Gay & Lesbian studies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: transgender & intersex