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Autore: | Caron David |
Titolo: | AIDS in French culture : social ills, literary cures / / David Caron |
Pubblicazione: | Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, 2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.1/969792/00944 |
Soggetto topico: | AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - France |
Metaphor | |
AIDS (Disease) in literature | |
Literature and medicine - France | |
Homosexuality - France | |
Soggetto geografico: | France Civilization |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | AIDS in French culture |
ISBN: | 9786612269004 |
0-299-17293-7 | |
1-282-26900-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819747803321 |
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