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AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic - Couverture souple

Long, Thomas L.

 
9780791461686: AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0791461688 ISBN 13 : 9780791461686
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2005

Synopsis

Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries-old American apocalypticism that included images of crisis, destruction, and ultimate renewal. In this book, Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to the medical crisis, prevent the spread of the disease, and treat the HIV infected.

Using the analytical tools of literary analysis, cultural studies, performance theory, and social semiotics, AIDS and American Apocalypticism examines many kinds of discourse, including fiction, drama, performance art, demonstration graphics and brochures, biomedical publications, and journalism and shows that, while initially useful, the effects of apocalyptic rhetoric in the long term are dangerous. Among the important figures in AIDS activism and the arts discussed are David Drake, Tim Miller, Sarah Schulman, and Tony Kushner, as well as the organizations ACT UP and Lesbian Avengers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas L. Long is Associate Professor-in-Residence in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut and the coauthor (with Emily F. Filippi) of Children's Catechumenate: Christian Initiation of Children.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0791461688
ISBN 13 
9780791461686
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
242
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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