Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later (Reading Trauma and Memory) - Hardcover

Aimee Pozorski; Jennifer Lavoie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498584462 ISBN 13: 9781498584463

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2019

Synopsis

Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media. This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and East Asia.

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About the Authors

Mark W. Lipsey is research professor, Peabody Research Institute and Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.

Christine Cynn is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

John McCaskill Jr. is clinical professor of public and nonprofit management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Cerise L. Glenn is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498584462
• ISBN 13: 9781498584463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198