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HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988 (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts) - Hardcover

 
9780853235682: HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988 (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts)
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This book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing. It is a predominantly literary critical study, informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts, and interwoven with contextual information.

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"Professor Boul's readings of specific texts are alert and frequently shrewd. The issues he has addressed are important ones: his emphasis on the position of women in French AIDS literature is valuable; his psychoanalytic characterizations - particularly of Simonin and Dreuilhe - underscore a dimension of the experience of AIDS people that has rarely been acknowledged or explored." -- Ross Chambers, University of Michigan

"Professor Boule's readings of specific texts are alert and frequently shrewd. The issues he has addressed are important ones: his emphasis on the position of women in French AIDS literature is valuable; his psychoanalytic characterizations - particularly of Simonin and Dreuilhe - underscore a dimension of the experience of AIDS people that has rarely been acknowledged or explored."-- Ross Chambers, University of Michigan
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Drawing attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988, before AIDS became either a wildly recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing, this predominately critical literary study is informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts. Interwoven with contextual information, the book provides sympathetic readings of courageous writers who have been unfairly criticised, like Dreuilhe, or forgotten like Simonin, or like Aron, never properly understood.

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  • PublisherLiverpool University Press
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0853235686
  • ISBN 13 9780853235682
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages240

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