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Author Caron, David (David Henri)

Title AIDS in French culture : social ills, literary cures / David Caron.

Publication Info. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.
Contents Introduction: Where Does AIDS Come from? -- Metaphors of Science -- Two Models of Health and Disease -- French Novels and the Construction of Otherness -- Degeneracy and Inversion: The Male Homosexual as Internal Other -- Discourse of Degenerescence -- Inventing the Male "Homosexual" -- Literature as Medicine, or Medicine as Literature? -- Gender Indecision and Cultural Anxiety: Outing Zola -- Theory and Practice of the Experimental Novel -- Naturalism as Heterosexuality -- Queering Napoleon III? -- Rambling Degenerate and the Instability of Authorship -- Reclaiming Disease and Infection: Jean Genet and the Politics of the Border -- Disease, Vermin, and Abjection -- Crossing Metaphorical Borders, or Contaminating Language -- Literal Borders -- A Cultural History of AIDS Discourse: France and the United States -- What AIDS Criticism? -- AIDS Representations -- Constructing the AIDS Sufferer -- AIDS and the Unraveling of Modernity: The Example of Herve Guibert -- Herve Guibert -- Returning the Doctor's Gaze -- Diseased Subject -- Discourse of Disease and the Disease of Discourse -- Gossip, Rumors, and the Margins of Modernity -- Conclusion: French Universalism and the Question of Community.
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- France.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
France.
AIDS (Disease)
Metaphor.
Metaphor.
France -- Civilization.
Civilization.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Literature and medicine -- France.
Literature and medicine.
Homosexuality -- France.
Homosexuality.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- psychology.
Homosexuality, Male.
Medicine in Literature.
Metaphor.
Social Perception.
France.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Homosexuality.
Other Form: Print version: Caron, David (David Henri). AIDS in French culture. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001001949 (OCoLC)46663467
ISBN 9780299172930 (electronic book)
0299172937 (electronic book)
0299172902 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780299172909 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0299172945 (paper ; alkaline paper)
9780299172947 (paper ; alkaline paper)