Viral Voyages - Tracing Aids in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Author Lina Meruane: Lina Meruane teaches Latin American Cultures in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, USA.Translated by Andrea Rosenberg: Andrea Rosenberg translates literary and academic texts from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translation of David Jiménez s Children of the Monsoon was recently published by Autumn Hill Books. She is currently working on a novel by Leopoldo Brizuela with the support of a Fulbright grant. Klappentext This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era! Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community! sexuality! nation! displacement and globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Beginning the Journey PART I: LOGBOOK OF AN HIV-POSITIVE VOYAGE PART II: VIRAL VOYAGERS 1. Itinerant Infirmity 2. The Comings and Goings of the Infectious Tourist 3. Back to the Nations of Death 4. Female Disappearance Syndrome 5. Happy Hour? or, The Cocktail Era

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: L Meruane, L. Meruane, Lina Meruane
• Con la collaborazione di: Kenneth A Loparo (Traduzione), Kenneth A. Loparo (Traduzione), Andrea Rosenberg (Traduzione)
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.05.2014
• EAN: 9781137394989
• ISBN: 978-1-137-39498-9
• Pagine: 254
• Serie: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri; New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; B, Gender Studies, Literature, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Urban Sociology, Gender studies, gender groups, World Literature, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, AIDS;America;community;globalization;Nation