| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) |
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New directions in Latino American cultures |
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New concepts in Latino American cultures |
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New directions in Latino American cultures.
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New concepts in Latino American cultures.
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| Contents |
Beginning the journey -- Logbook of an HIV-positive voyage -- Viral voyagers -- Itinerant infirmity -- The comings and goings of the infectious tourist -- Back to the nations of death -- Female disappearance syndrome -- Happy hour?, or the cocktail era |
| Summary |
This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization. Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America is a unique book on the connection between AIDS, its literary representation, and the debates surrounding globalization in Latin America. This interdisciplinary study is a journey throughout Latin American 'HIV-Positive Writing' and its connection with topics such as national and gender identities, travel and displacement, locality and globality, and the disciplinary discourse on illness. By identifying a corpus of novels, short stories, urban chronicles, plays and autobiographical pieces written by mostly gay Latin American authors, Meruane argues that the literary representation of the diseased homosexual subject in Latin America contains a radical critique of the political, economic, and social erasure entailed in the notion of globality. With a gripping rhythm and incisive readings of some of the most prominent late twentieth century Latin American authors, this book is aimed to a broad readership |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Spanish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Latin American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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AIDS (Disease) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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AIDS (Disease) in literature
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Latin American literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rosenberg, Andrea, translator
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| ISBN |
9781137394996 |
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1137394994 |
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9781306837996 |
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1306837995 |
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