Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture

Raw Matters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Loïc Bourdeau, V. Hunter Capps, Loic Bourdeau, V. Hunter Bourdeau, Loïc, Capps

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-07
Mått161 x 227 x 20 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor180
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793650085

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting Sites of Rawness, Queerness, and VulnerabilityLoïc Bourdeau and V. Hunter CappsChapter One: Transmitting It: Rawness and the Politics of HIV/AIDS Witnessing TodayDavid CaronChapter Two: Raw Writing: AIDS Autofiction and the Construction of Seropositive SubjectivityV. Hunter CappsChapter Three: Kindling Kinships: Sexual Citizenship and Queer Constructions of Masculinity in the Works of Erik RémèsDaniel. N. MarounChapter Four: Covering Up: Condomless Sex, (Ir)responsibility, and Risk in FranceBrian TrothChapter Five: “C’est Votre Choix” or, Private Identities and Public Militancy in the Second Decade of the AIDS Epidemic in France: The Case of Gay Porn Magazine Projet XJoão FlorêncioChapter Six: Viral Dances: Moving in Times of a PandemicLucille TothChapter Seven: State of Sexual Exception: SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and Sexual Citizenship in Pandemic TimesCJ GomolkaChapter Eight: Interview with Nicholas Giguère and Kevin Lambert

Such a well-conceived, trenchant, carefully balanced collection. These essays explicitly interrogate the Western "response to" — better termed, engagements with — HIV/AIDS and its contingencies, rebooting our knowledge and assumptions about all the topics it brings to the fore: social divisions, the ontology of politics and risk, cultural transfer, and the ongoing public trial of sex. From theory to public education, from hardcore porn to dance and TikTok, a treasury of materials bespeaks the impact these struggles have made on our culture, as these essays and interviews rove gracefully but probingly through it. The specifics of language, national contexts, and the vexed positions of gay writing thread deftly and provocatively through these compelling texts.