Steven F. Kruger

AIDS Narratives (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science
Redaktion: Kruger, Steven F.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay men, part of a battle over masculinity, and thus largely excluding women with AIDS from public attention-the book considers how such discourses have shaped narrative understandings of AIDS. On the one hand, AIDS is seen as an invariably fatal weakening of an individual's bodily defenses, a depiction often used to reconfirm an identification between disease and a weak and vulnerable gayness. On the other hand, AIDS is understood in terms of an epidemic attributable to gay immorality or unnaturalness. The fiction of AIDS depends upon these two narratives, with one major subgenre of AIDS novel presenting narratives of personal illness, decline, and death, and a second focusing on epidemic spread. These novels also question the narrative structures upon which they depend, intervening particularly against the homophobia of those structures, though also sometimes reinforcing it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136510496
• Artikelnr.: 47894911

Autorenporträt

Adrian ARUGER

Inhaltsangabe

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