Viral Voyages: Tracing AIDS in Latin America

by Lina Meruane

Book Overview

This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349484091
• ISBN13: 9781349484096
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"