AIDS in French culture : social ills, literary cures / / David Caron
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| Autore: |
Caron David
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| Titolo: |
AIDS in French culture : social ills, literary cures / / David Caron
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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