Enemies within
Subtitle: the Cold War and the AIDS crisis in literature, film, and culture
By: Jacqueline Foertsch.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Cold War in literature.; Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- History.; AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures.; Postmodernism -- United States.; AIDS (Disease) in literature.; Cold War in motion pictures.
Description: "Enemies Within presents the literature and film of the cold war and AIDS eras as evidence, manifestation, and symptom of the recurring ills of our postnuclear time: global threat, buried fears, and a paranoid reaction to the infectious other. Foertsch argues that our shared experience of and response to AIDS not only significantly resembles but also emerged directly from its midcentury predecessor, which conditioned us to dread worldwide biological disaster and an invisible enemy.

She considers the "false binaries" (straight/gay, patriot/traitor, healthy/infected) that promise protection from an invasive threat and the utopian impulse to purge, homogenize, and relocate problematic individuals outside the city walls."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Five minutes to midnight; title: what is a postmodern plague?; title: Counting down; title: to catastrophe or cure?; title: Four corners of a crisis : genres of plague texts; title: Three points of sight : gender in plague texts; title: Two takes on a scare : cinematic plague texts and their remakes; title: Conclusion : One fine day; title: toward a realization of the "Eutemporal".