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Garland Reference Library of the Humanities #7: AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science
by Steven F. Kruger

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay men, part of a battle over masculinity, and thus largely excluding women with AIDS from public attention-the book considers how such discourses have shaped narrative understandings of AIDS. On the one hand, AIDS is seen as an invariably fatal weakening of an individual's bodily defenses, a depiction often used to reconfirm an identification between disease and a weak and vulnerable gayness. On the other hand, AIDS is understood in terms of an epidemic attributable to gay "immorality" or "unnaturalness." The fiction of AIDS depends upon these two narratives, with one major subgenre of AIDS novel presenting narratives of personal illness, decline, and death, and a second focusing on epidemic "spread." These novels also question the narrative structures upon which they depend, intervening particularly against the homophobia of those structures, though also sometimes reinforcing it.

Book News Annotation:

An examination of AIDS fiction revealing how AIDS discourses have shaped society's understanding of the disease. Kruger (Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes scientific texts, arguing that their language has made AIDS an exclusively gendered, gay disease. From this vantage point, he critically examines the literary fiction which has "spread" from the medical discourse, including the work of John Weir and Sarah Schulman. The bibliography is exceptional in scope containing nearly 1000 entries covering AIDS discourse in anthologies, fiction, poetry, drama/performance, and nonfiction.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-380) and index.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780815309253
Subtitle:
Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science
Author:
Kruger, Steven F.
Publisher:
Garland Publishing
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
History and criticism
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Sex in literature
Subject:
Literature and science
Subject:
Gay men in literature
Subject:
Aids
Series:
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
Series Volume:
v. 7vol. 1628
Publication Date:
March 1996
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
404
Dimensions:
8.82x5.85x1.14 in. 1.00 lbs.
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