LEADER 03975nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910958184103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612269004 010 $a9780299172930 010 $a0299172937 010 $a9781282269002 010 $a1282269003 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713358 035 $a(OCoLC)648386415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10409684 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000276751 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219870 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276751 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10226092 035 $a(PQKB)11326743 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12122 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445049 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445049 035 $a(Perlego)4386239 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713358 100 $a20010330d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAIDS in French culture $esocial ills, literary cures /$fDavid Caron 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, WI $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299172909 311 08$a0299172902 311 08$a9780299172947 311 08$a0299172945 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Where Does AIDS Come from? -- Metaphors of Science -- Two Models of Health and Disease -- French Novels and the Construction of Otherness -- CHAPTER 1 Degeneracy and Inversion: The Male Homosexual as Internal Other -- The Discourse of Dégénérescence -- Inventing the Male "Homosexual" -- Literature as Medicine, or Medicine as Literature? -- CHAPTER 2 Gender Indecision and Cultural Anxiety: Outing Zola -- Theory and Practice of the Experimental Novel -- Naturalism as Heterosexuality -- Queering Napoleon III? -- The Rambling Degenerate and the Instability of Authorship -- CHAPTER 3 Reclaiming Disease and Infection: Jean Genet and the Politics of the Border -- Disease, Vermin, and Abjection -- Crossing Metaphorical Borders, or Contaminating Language -- Literal Borders -- CHAPTER 4 A Cultural History of AIDS Discourse: France and the United States -- What AIDS Criticism? 96 -- AIDS Representations -- Constructing the AIDS Sufferer -- CHAPTER 5 AIDS and the Unraveling of Modernity: The Example of Hervé Guibert -- Hervé Guibert -- Returning the Doctor's Gaze -- The Diseased Subject -- The Discourse of Disease and the Disease of Discourse -- Gossip, Rumors, and the Margins of Modernity -- CONCLUSION French Universalism and the Question of Community -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. 330 8 $aThe deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself. To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, AIDS in French Culture analyzes the intersections of three discourses-the literary, the medical, and the political-and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS back to nineteenth-century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity, and sexuality. 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects$zFrance 606 $aMetaphor 606 $aAIDS (Disease) in literature 606 $aLiterature and medicine$zFrance 606 $aHomosexuality$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xCivilization 615 0$aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMetaphor. 615 0$aAIDS (Disease) in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and medicine 615 0$aHomosexuality 676 $a362.1/969792/00944 700 $aCaron$b David$0919981 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958184103321 996 $aAIDS in French culture$94364082 997 $aUNINA