Priscilla Wald

Contagious

Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341284
• ISBN-10: 082234128X
• Artikelnr.: 22956592

Autorenporträt

Priscilla Wald is Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form and the editor of the journal American Literature, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Imagined Immunities: The Epidemiology of Belonging 29
2. The Healthy Carrier: "Typhoid Mary" and Social Being 68
3. Communicable Americanism: Social Contagion and Urban Spaces 114
4. Viral Cultures: Microbes and Politics in the Cold War 157
5. "The Columbus of AIDS": The Invention of "Patient Zero" 213
Epilogue 264
Notes 271
Works Cited 323
Index 353