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AIDS
in French Culture
Social
Ills, Literary Cures
David
Caron
Why France ignored the AIDS crisis
The
deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first
public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic
spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself.
To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS
crisis, AIDS in French Culture analyzes the intersections
of three discourses—the literary, the medical, and the political—and
traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS back to nineteenth-century
anxieties about nationhood, masculinity, and sexuality.
"Literary
and cultural analysis come together here as Caron casts brilliant
light on the disastrously inadequate public response to the AIDS
pandemic in France. . . . He shows how literature has supplied
the communitarian voice that would otherwise have been lacking."—Ross
Chambers, author of Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death
of the Author
David Caron is associate professor of French at the
University of Michigan.
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November
2001
216 pp. 6 x 9
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Cloth $50.00 s
ISBN 978-0-299-17290-9
Paper $19.95 s
ISBN 978-0-299-17294-7 |
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