Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America

· Springer
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244
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This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.
This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, d...

About the author

Author Lina Meruane: Lina Meruane teaches Latin American Cultures in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, USA. Translated by Andrea Rosenberg: Andrea Rosenberg translates literary and academic texts from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translation of David Jiménez s Children of the Monsoon was recently published by Autumn Hill Books. She is currently working on a novel by Leopoldo Brizuela with the support of a Fulbright grant.
Author Lina Meruane: Lina Meruane teaches Latin American Cultures in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, USA. Translated by Andrea Rosenberg: Andrea Rosenberg translates literary and academic texts from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translation of David Jiménez s Children of the Mon...

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