Aids Narratives
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Aids Narratives
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Author : Steven F. Kruger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Aids Narratives written by Steven F. Kruger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
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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Author : Stephanie Nolen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
28 written by Stephanie Nolen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Health & Fitness categories.
Twenty-eight anecdotal stories that chronicle men, women, and children involved in every aspect of the African AIDS crisis.
The Evolution Of Aids Narratives
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Author : Jennifer Jean Lavoie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Evolution Of Aids Narratives written by Jennifer Jean Lavoie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
At the beginning of the AIDS crisis in 1981, most literature about the disease came in the form of medical reports written by doctors observing unusual clusters of Pneumocystis pneumonia. It wasn't until 1988 that the first AIDS memoir emerged--and with it came a wholly new literary genre. However, while AIDS fiction is heavily analyzed by literary critics, these narratives, particularly contemporary memoirs, are often left untouched. While there has been discussion of early narratives, including the seminal AIDS Borrowed Time (1988) by Paul Monette, little has been done with more contemporary memoirs, such as Body Counts (2014) by Sean Strub and The Nearness of Others (2014) by David Caron. Though all three are considered literary AIDS memoirs that share a focus on the politics and treatment of AIDS, I suggest a shift occurs between the earliest memoirs and those published within the last decade. Drawing on Monette, Strub, and Caron as my examples, and using close reading in conjunction with historical and medical texts, I will discuss the evolution I have noted--a shift in representations with AIDS becoming as the central focus in life of the author, on the one hand, to representations of AIDS as just another part of a life prolonged by effective medical treatments. However, I also propose here that a secondary, slightly less expected shift occurs within the gay community after this medicine is introduced. I argue that, while medical progress extends the life of a patient with HIV, it also, paradoxically, appears to reverse the social and political progress of the HIV community, pushing them outside the culture of their larger communities. Reading HIV/AIDS memoirs as literature will continue to highlight not only the struggles within the positive community, but also within the LGBT community itself. Furthermore, considering these memoirs as literary, and even social treatises in their own right, will allow us to see the ironies and injustices perpetuated by the institutions we would ordinarily expect to protect us.
Forget Burial
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Author : Marty Fink
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-13
Forget Burial written by Marty Fink and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-13 with Family & Relationships categories.
Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early '90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence.These early HIV care-giving narratives continue to shape how we understand our genders and our disabilities, forming ongoing chosen families for body self-determination.
The Aids Generation
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Author : Perry N. Halkitis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Aids Generation written by Perry N. Halkitis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Medical categories.
Examines the strategies employed by the first generation of HIV-positive gay men to survive and cope and provides an understanding of how individuals cope with life-threatening diseases.
Voices That Care
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Author : Neal Hitchens
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1994-06-30
Voices That Care written by Neal Hitchens and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-30 with Psychology categories.
Here are stories and encouragements for people with AIDS / HIV. This powerful and inspiring book goes beyond the usual stereotypes of AIDS sufferers to impart the realities of ordinary people who have acquired the syndrome and of those who love and care for them. Selected as one of The 1993 Books for the Teen Age by The New York Public Library.
As They See It
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Author : Raymond Downing
language : en
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Release Date : 2005-04-30
As They See It written by Raymond Downing and has been published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-30 with Reference categories.
African AIDS, in the West, is often associated with media images of skeletal, forlorn-looking and dying Africans inviting the sympathy of the viewer or reader. Associated with these images are often motleys of subtly hidden narratives - poverty, promiscuity, failed leadership, impending Armageddon, and lately the greed and heartlessness of Western drugs companies who are harangued for prioritising profits over African lives.But how do Africans themselves see AIDS? What do they believe causes the disease? How do those affected by the undeniable epidemic really live with it? And how has the disease affected the Africans' sense of who they are?With the possible exception of the perspectives espoused by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa - much of which is distorted - the African AIDS discourse, has, as with most things African, been severely marginalized, if not completely kept away from the Western media.Dr Raymond Downing, an American medical doctor, who with his wife (also a medical doctor) have been living and practising medicine in different African countries for over fifteen years, seeks to plug this lacuna with this book. Based on personal observations, interviews, the reading of African press, books and AIDS narrative in African fiction, as well as in academic papers, Dr Downing charts the development of the African AIDS discourse. He invites the reader to look beyond the AIDS epidemic to see how Africans view health and diseases in general.
A Method An Imprint A Link And A Breath Writings To Circulate The Voices Of Hiv Positive Individuals And Their Communities
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Author : Stephanie Kranes
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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A Method An Imprint A Link And A Breath Writings To Circulate The Voices Of Hiv Positive Individuals And Their Communities written by Stephanie Kranes and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Hiv Stories
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Author : Jean-Pierre Boulé
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Hiv Stories written by Jean-Pierre Boulé and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.
Representations Of Hiv Aids In Contemporary Hispano American And Caribbean Culture
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Author : Gustavo Subero
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Representations Of Hiv Aids In Contemporary Hispano American And Caribbean Culture written by Gustavo Subero and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS, re-interpreting the condition in the light of advances in treatment. With attention to both the temporality and spatiality of production, this book examines whether heterosexual and homosexual, and masculine and feminine bodies are narrativised in the same manner, considering the question of whether representations foster discrimination of any kind. The book also asks whether representations across Latin America are homogenous or varied according to national, social or cultural context, and explores the commonalities between the representations of HIV/AIDS in Hispano-America and the Caribbean and other global narratives. A detailed study of the various representations of HIV/AIDS and the construction of public opinion, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural, media and film studies, the sociology of health, the body and illness, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.