REPRESENTATIONS OF HIV/AIDS IN CONTEMPORARY HISPANO

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represen t and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, a s well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literat...[Llegir més]