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Fernandez, Oscar.

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Proliferation of disease in Iberoamerican fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Proliferation of disease in Iberoamerican fiction./
Author:	Fernandez, Oscar.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-12, Section: A, page: 4454.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-12A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3114830
ISBN:	9780496623198

Proliferation of disease in Iberoamerican fiction.
Fernandez, Oscar.

Proliferation of disease in Iberoamerican fiction. - 248 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-12, Section: A, page: 4454.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2003.

"Disease" has become an emergent metaphor in describing, policing, and regimenting sexual, racial, and political difference. This study of narrative and disease in the Americas reveals how dissident, sometimes queer, bodies come to be regarded as viral threats to the state, and how such a construction of illness comes to be resisted in AIDS narratives.

ISBN: 9780496623198Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Proliferation of disease in Iberoamerican fiction.
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520 $a In moments of epidemiological crisis when governmental institutions enact states of emergency to counteract disease, regimens of biopower construct aberrant bodies as diseased and therefore as subject to state inspection, medical isolation, and criminalization. Reflecting characteristics of colonial and eighteenth-century narratives of an enervated New World, Jose Ricardo Chaves (Paisaje con tumbas pintadas en rosa, 1998, Costa Rica) depicts how AIDS in the Americas echoes colonial accounts of disease, race, and sexuality. With the emergence of AIDS, the Cuban government enacted states of emergency to contain and incarcerate its HIV-positive citizens. The literary manifestation of such detention wards is evident in works by Severo Sarduy (Pajaros de la playa, 1993, Cuba) and by Juan Goytisolo (Las virtudes del pajaro solitario, 1988, Spain).
520 $a In addition to those writers, who resist statist medical treatments and quarantines, this study examines how Reinaldo Arenas (El color del verano o Nuevo jardin de las delicias, 1990, Cuba) and Silviano Santiago (Stella Manhattan, 1985, Brazil) use religious iconography, especially localized in homoerotic representations of saints, to challenge the mechanisms that create, maintain, and police the state. Furthermore, mystical adumbrations are evoked in Sarduy and in Goytisolo, who construct biomedical policing, approach medical protocols, and lastly, re-write invocations of the hereafter. Narratives such as these attempt to reify the sacred component of all life, but especially life that has been interpreted to be aberrant and diseased. Contemporary history and writing in the Americas both show that before bodies are excluded, quarantined, or exterminated, they are denaturalized as diseased, heretical, criminal, and dangerous to the state.
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