AIDS Narratives - Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Is a Virus Language?; Chapter 2 AIDS and the Battlefields of Masculinity; Chapter 3 The Narratives of AIDS; Chapter 4 Gay and Other Subjects of AIDS; Chapter 5 John Weir's The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket; Chapter 6 Apocalyptic Conspiracies:The “Epidemiological Narrative” of AIDS; Chapter 7 “But Then What?”: Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble; Appendix Bibliography of AIDS Literature; Works Cited; INDEX;

About the author

Adrian ARUGER

Summary

An examination of AIDS fiction revealing how AIDS discourses have shaped society's understanding of the disease. Kruger (Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes scientific texts, arguing that their language has made AIDS an exclusively gendered, gay disease. From this vantage point, he critic

Product details

• Authors: Steven F Kruger, Kruger Steven F.
• Assisted by: Steven F Kruger (Editor), Kruger Steven F. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9780815309253
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-0925-3
• No. of pages: 420
• Weight: 940 g
• Series: Gender and Genre in Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases