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Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS
Forty Years Later
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Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS
Forty Years Later
About this book
Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media. This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and East Asia.
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Yes, you can access Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS by Aimee Pozorski,Jennifer J. Lavoie,Christine J. Cynn in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Historical Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS
- 2 Countering the Plague
- 3 Poetry before Protease
- 4 Early Representations of IT
- 5 Borrowed Time, Body Counts, and The Nearness of Others
- 6 Guibert before Guibert
- 7 The Dream, the Disease, and the Disaster
- 8 Abortion and Family as HIV Prevention Strategies
- 9 When “Safe” Isn’t Safe
- 10 Exceptional PrEParations
- 11 “We Should Be Embracing the Infected, the HIV-Positive, and Showering Them Not Only with Love, but with Medical Care and Psychosocial Services”
- Index
- About the Contributors