Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later

Aimee Pozorski; Jennifer J. Lavoie; Christine J. Cynn

doi:10.5771/9781498584470

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8446-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8447-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 185
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1 Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS No access Pages 1 - 12
2 Countering the Plague No access Pages 13 - 28
3 Poetry before Protease No access Pages 29 - 42
4 Early Representations of IT No access Pages 43 - 60
5 Borrowed Time, Body Counts, and The Nearness of Others No access Pages 61 - 76
6 Guibert before Guibert No access Pages 77 - 88
7 The Dream, the Disease, and the Disaster No access Pages 89 - 104
8 Abortion and Family as HIV Prevention Strategies No access Pages 105 - 124
9 When “Safe” Isn’t Safe No access Pages 125 - 144
10 Exceptional PrEParations No access Pages 145 - 162
11 “We Should Be Embracing the Infected, the HIV-Positive, and Showering Them Not Only with Love, but with Medical Care and Psychosocial Services” No access Pages 163 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 182
About the Contributors No access Pages 183 - 185