Full Product Details
Author: Loïc Bourdeau ,
V. Hunter Capps ,
Brian J. Troth ,
CJ Gomolka
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.445kg
ISBN: 9781793650085
ISBN 10: 179365008
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 07 March 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.
Reviews
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. -- Jason Hartford, University of Dundee Bringing together new, cutting-edge research into cultural narratives and testimonies of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Loic Bourdeau's and V. Hunter Capps's important collection Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture: Raw Matters is a timely, dynamic, and interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to study HIV/AIDS today, in a time when the current COVID-19 public health crisis seems to be '[reopening] an old wound' in France, demanding that the traumas, histories and voices of HIV/AIDS past and present are heard, honoured and studied with renewed urgency. The book invites us to explore the specificity of the political, cultural, queer experience and legacy of the HIV/AIDS crisis through introducing us to a compelling new conception of rawness. This rawness seeks to conceptualise the ways in which unmitigated vulnerability and unprocessed trauma are expressed and witnessed in cultural productions stemming from the beginning of the crisis to its continuing shockwaves. This work offers rich concepts and frameworks with which to help us to connect past and present, to continue to unearth voices, lived experiences, and lessons that can help us shape a better future. -- Benjamin Dalton, University of Birmingham
Author Information
Loïc Bourdeau is associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. V. Hunter Capps is postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the University at Buffalo.
