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Writing AIDS: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature by Jodie Parys examines the ways in which AIDS has pervaded the personal and social imaginings of the body by highlighting textual representations found in Spanish American literature where AIDS has a significant role. This book addresses the current void in literary theory about HIV/AIDS in Spanish America by drawing together diverse literary texts to illuminate how these Spanish American writers have chosen to depict this disease and how their texts will be archived for future generations. All of the works are united under the broad topic of the body, conceived of as the individual comprising a physical, emotional, and spiritual entity both in isolation and in communion with others. Because HIV and AIDS are physical viruses that attack real bodies, it is the initial portal of entry into the exploration of the notion of identity and how it is impacted and altered by the arrival of AIDS. However, each individual is also a part of a larger community, and the virus itself impacts society as well as individuals. These separate but related concepts—the individual and social bodies—are the uniting themes that are woven throughout the entire study.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-5
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. Chapter One - The Body as Weapon: HIV as Revenge
  2. pp. 17-56
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  1. Chapter Two - Eroticism and AIDS: The Confluence of Desire, Death, and Writing
  2. pp. 57-93
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  1. Chapter Three - Isolation and Exile: AIDS and the Solitary Body
  2. pp. 94-137
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  1. Chapter Four - Forging (Comm)unity through Hybridity: Pedro Lemebel’s Loco afán: crónicas de sidario
  2. pp. 138-171
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  1. Concluding Thoughts - Future Markers of Identity: An Ever-Shifting Landscape
  2. pp. 172-179
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 180-184
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 185-199
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