Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1786836904 ISBN 13 : 9781786836908

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2021

Synopsis

OPEN ACCESS To view Embodying Contagion for free click on the following link: https:\/\/www.uwp.co.uk\/app\/uploads\/Embodying\-Contagion\-full\-pdf\-OA\-low\-res\-min.pdf This edited volume is also available to read on OAPEN: https:\/\/library.oapen.org\/handle\/20.500.12657\/47586 From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty\-first\-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real world and the people within it. In an age where fact and fiction seem increasingly difficult to separate, contagious bodies (and the discourses that contain them) continually blur established boundaries between real and unreal, legitimacy and frivolity, science and the supernatural. Where previous scholarly work has examined the spread of epidemic realities in horror fiction, the essays in this collection also consider how epidemic fantasies and fears influence reality. Initiating dialogue between scholarship from cultural and media studies, and scholarship from the medical humanities and social sciences, this collection gives readers a fuller picture of the viropolitics of contagious bodies in contemporary global culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sandra Becker is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Groningen. Megen de Bruin-Molé is Lecturer in Digital Media Practice at the University of Southampton. Sara Polak is Assistant Professor in American Studies at Leiden University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786836904
• ISBN 13: 9781786836908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Becker Sandra, Bruin-Mole Megen De, Polak Sara
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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