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UNINA9910789252403321 |
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Caron David |
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The Nearness of Others [[electronic resource] ] : Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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HIV-positive gay men -- Biography |
HIV-positive gay men -- History |
HIV-positive gay men -- Psychology |
HIV-positive gay men - Psychology |
HIV-positive gay men |
Medicine |
Health & Biological Sciences |
Clinical Immunology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Contents; Diagnosis; I Got Slim; Footnotes; RB on TB; All AIDS, All the Time!; It Is Tempting to Forget; Nights You Can't Sleep; Depression Is Crazy; Depression and Life; Depression and Metaphor; Passing; Depression and Incongruity; Depressed Thinking; Making Sense; Political Discomfort; Thinking of Bleeding; Kids Say the Darndest Things; Negative Logic and a Positive Point of View; "How Can Plain Curiosity Be Unkind? "; Towel Stories (I); Diabetes? Cholesterol? Something Else?; The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over; Speaking of HIV; Old Friends, New Friends; Famous Last Words |
Tough as Nail PolishNo Therapy; Unspoken Knowledge; From Hervé Guibert's Hospital Diary (I); Hospital Visits; From Hervé Guibert's Hospital Diary (II); Star Entrance; Star Exit; The Dream Sequence; I Died a Thousand Deaths (All of Them Gorgeous); Others; The New World; Three Thousand Deaths in One Day; Waiting; Nearness and Neighborliness; Beckoning and Appealing; Incomplete Strangers; Ground Zero; "I'm Going to Die, Aren't I?"; Happy Hour at the Cox; |
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Naked Arab Bodies; S- 21; The Modernity of Torture; The E.R. Episode; Truth and Torture; Dining with French People; Encountering the Strange |
Times Square LostIn the City and Out; From Public Schools to Public Pools; Particular Bodies; The Falling Man; Towel Stories (II); One Drop of Blood; Disclosure; Shame and Experience; The Doorstep of Shame; Forget Your Health; Disclosures and Surfaces; Obama's Disclosures, Forever Deferred; Chat (I); Chat (II); Adventures in Online Cruising; On the Question of Barebacking, Very Briefly; Coda to the Story of k***; Touchiness; Reason to Exclude; The Stories of AIDS; Academic Talk; A Brief History of HIV/AIDS Disclosure; Founding Mothers; Look Back in Anger (When AIDS Was All the Rage) |
Uttering AIDSWhere's the Police When You Need 'Em?; What I Said and How I Said It; The Purloined Letter; So Am I; Small Talk; The Story of the Raconteurs; Compatible Discordance; The Battlefield of the Body; Dysclosure; Towel Stories (III); Taste; Intimacy in Public; Accounting for Taste; Reembodiment and Discomfort; Reentering the Movie Theater; Moving in Queer Circles; Spaces, People, and Actions (I); The Return of Tosca (Entr'acte); Spaces, People, and Actions (II); Again, Where Are the Police?; Tact; My Contact in the Underground; Hostile Bodies (and the People Who Love Them) |
Sharing: From Disclosure to TactTact and Delicacy (I); Tactlessness; Tactful Encounters; Tact and Delicacy (II); The Shower Scene; Tact and Delicacy (III); Tact, Power, and the Police (I); Tact, Power, and the Police (II); Tact and Contamination; Tact and Silence; Tact and Failure; Tact and Unreason; The Kindness of Strangers; Sunday in the Park with . . . ?; The Yellow Star; Tact as Social Music Making; A Fart Joke from Proust; Touch and Other Senses; Immodesty; Reentering the Movie Theater's Restroom; Tact and Intimation; Found Objects (I): Tact and Bearing Witness as Forms of Bricolage |
Tactfulness to the Dead |
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"Funny how a gay man's hand resting heavily on your shoulder used to say let's fuck but now means let's not. Funny how ostensible nearness really betrays distance sometimes." -from The Nearness of OthersIn this radical, genre-bending narrative, David Caron tells the story of his 2006 HIV diagnosis and its aftermath. On one level, The Nearness of Others is a personal account of his struggle as a gay, HIV-positive man with the constant issue of if, how, and when to disclose his status. But searching for various forms of contact eventually leads to a prof |
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UNINA9910781120703321 |
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Starnes Richard D. <1970-> |
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Creating the land of the sky [[electronic resource] ] : tourism and society in western North Carolina / / Richard D. Starnes |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Collana |
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Tourism - North Carolina - History |
Tourism - Social aspects - North Carolina - History |
Mountain life - North Carolina - History |
North Carolina Social life and customs |
North Carolina Social conditions |
North Carolina Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Sanitariums, Railroads, and the New South; 2. Building Image and Infrastructure: Tourism, Development, and Regional Identity, 1875-1930; 3. Metropolis of the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Urban Development in Asheville, North Carolina, 1880-1931; 4. "The Fellowship of Kindred Minds Is like to That Above": Religious Tourism in God's Country; 5. National Parks, Ski Resorts, and Second Homes: Mountain Tourism Development after 1930; 6. Life, Labor, and Culture in the Land of the Sky; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index |
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A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South. In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Those unable to afford the expense of a second home relaxed at the hotels that emerged to meet their needs. This early tourist activity set the stage for tourism to become the region's New South industry. After 1865, the development of railroads and the buge |
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