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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451775803321

Autore

BouleĢ Jean-Pierre

Titolo

HIV Stories [[electronic resource] ] : The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-78138-672-2

1-84631-328-7

1-4175-6808-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts

Disciplina

840.9355

848.9140080356

Soggetti

French literature

French literature - History and criticism - 20th century

AIDS (Disease) in literature

Romance Literatures

Languages & Literatures

French Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: AIDS Fiction; 1: Laygues: The Ambiguity in Witnessing; 2: Juliette: Masculinist Desires and Sexualities; 3: Winer: Masculinity, Grief and Sexuality; Part II: AIDS Testimony; 4: Testimony, Self-Avowal and Confession; 5: Dreuilhe: Metaphor/Phantasy and Mobilisation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing. It is a predominantly literary critical study, informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts, and interwoven with contextual information.