Viral Voyages [electronic resource] : Tracing AIDS in Latin America /
Meruane, L.author.
Rosenberg, Andrea,translator.
This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Beginning the Journey; PART I Logbook of an HIV-Positive Voyage; PART II Viral Voyagers; CHAPTER 1 Itinerant Infirmity; CHAPTER 2 The Comings and Goings of the Infectious Tourist; CHAPTER 3 Back to the Nations of Death; CHAPTER 4 Female Disappearance Syndrome; CHAPTER 5 Happy Hour?, or The Cocktail Era; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Sociology.
Sociology, Urban.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Latin American Culture.
Gender Studies.
Sociology, general.
Urban Studies/Sociology.