HIV Stories [electronic resource] : The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988
Boulé, Jean-Pierre.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2002.
This book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing. It is a predominantly literary critical study, informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts, and interwoven with contextual information.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: AIDS Fiction; 1: Laygues: The Ambiguity in Witnessing; 2: Juliette: Masculinist Desires and Sexualities; 3: Winer: Masculinity, Grief and Sexuality; Part II: AIDS Testimony; 4: Testimony, Self-Avowal and Confession; 5: Dreuilhe: Metaphor/Phantasy and Mobilisation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing. It is a predominantly literary critical study, informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts, and interwoven with contextual information.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
French literature.
French literature
AIDS (Disease) in literature
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
French Literature