AIDS Narratives - Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science

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

Sommario

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;

Info autore

Adrian ARUGER

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Steven F Kruger, Kruger Steven F.
• Con la collaborazione di: Steven F Kruger (Editore), Kruger Steven F. (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9780815309253
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-0925-3
• Pagine: 420
• Peso: 940 g
• Serie: Gender and Genre in Literature
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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