Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later (Reading Trauma and Memory). Este artículo no está disponible.Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later (Reading Trauma and Memory)

Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media. This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and East Asia.

Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Racial Justice Certificate at Central Connecticut State University.

Jennifer Lavoie is instructor of English and American Studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Christine Cynn is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.