Full Description
This edited collection brings together scholarship from established and emerging scholars in HIV/AIDS studies, French studies, Visual Arts, and Dance. As French writers and artists from the past five to ten years have been revisiting the AIDS crisis and its attendant cultural amnesia, their work has brought about the necessity of foregrounding vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma when considering disease. By way of probing "rawness" and its varying iterations, this volume gathers analyses of HIV/AIDS productions from the 1980s to today in the service of excavating lessons learned by those living in proximity to disease. These lessons provide important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics. The volume thus highlights the specificities of the former while offering solutions on how to discuss and mitigate the latter.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revisiting Sites of Rawness, Queerness, and Vulnerability
Loïc Bourdeau and V. Hunter Capps
Chapter One: Transmitting It: Rawness and the Politics of HIV/AIDS Witnessing Today
David Caron
Chapter Two: Raw Writing: AIDS Autofiction and the Construction of Seropositive Subjectivity
V. Hunter Capps
Chapter Three: Kindling Kinships: Sexual Citizenship and Queer Constructions of Masculinity in the Works of Erik Rémès
Daniel. N. Maroun
Chapter Four: Covering Up: Condomless Sex, (Ir)responsibility, and Risk in France
Brian Troth
Chapter Five: "C'est Votre Choix" or, Private Identities and Public Militancy in the Second Decade of the AIDS Epidemic in France: The Case of Gay Porn Magazine Projet X
João Florêncio
Chapter Six: Viral Dances: Moving in Times of a Pandemic
Lucille Toth
Chapter Seven: State of Sexual Exception: SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and Sexual Citizenship in Pandemic Times
CJ Gomolka
Chapter Eight: Interview with Nicholas Giguère and Kevin Lambert
