Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture
Raw Matters
Abstract
This edited collection brings together scholarship from established and emerging scholars in HIV/AIDS studies, French studies, Visual Arts, and Dance. As French writers and artists from the past five to ten years have been revisiting the AIDS crisis and its attendant cultural amnesia, their work has brought about the necessity of foregrounding vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma when considering disease. By way of probing “rawness” and its varying iterations, this volume gathers analyses of HIV/AIDS productions from the 1980s to today in the service of excavating lessons learned by those living in proximity to disease. These lessons provide important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics. The volume thus highlights the specificities of the former while offering solutions on how to discuss and mitigate the latter.
Schlagworte
COVID-19 French Politics Homosexuality Epidemics Queer literature- 1–18 Introduction 1–18
- 19–38 Transmitting It 19–38
- 39–56 Raw Writing 39–56
- 75–92 Covering Up 75–92
- 115–130 Viral Dances 115–130
- 163–166 Index 163–166
- 167–170 About the Contributors 167–170