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1	HIV/AIDS literature: the effects of representation on an ethics of care Younger, Laura Sue 30 September 2004 (has links) No description available. Literature, American HIV/AIDS Literature Representations of Illness Ethics of Care
2	The Neoliberal Noirs of Gary Indiana Morgan, Carson 01 May 2024 (has links) (PDF) This thesis is concerned with the two AIDS-era novels of Gary Indiana, a long-neglected yet essential literary figure who, as the critic Christian Lorentzen has argued, “connects the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in ways readers and critics are only beginning to apprehend” (xii). Beginning chronologically with a study of Indiana’s first two novels, Horse Crazy (1989) and Gone Tomorrow (1993), this thesis attempts to realize Lorentzen’s call to action, attending particularly to the ways in which Indiana’s novels write the neoliberal subject. More than exploring life under the AIDS crisis and embodying a radical queer approach to narrative, I contend, through the repurposed frame of noir and thematic explorations of kitsch, the novels of Gary Indiana radically interrogate neoliberal subjectivities, offering a remarkably stark vision of interior lives completely colonized by capitalism, commodified subjects incapable of intimacy. Gary Indiana new narrative AIDS literature noir Literature in English, North America
3	"I remember when a diagnosis was a death sentence" : lʼécriture du SIDA et de la mort dans la littérature gay. : David Feinberg, Tony Kushner et Armistead Maupin. / "I remember when a diagnosis was a death sentence" : writing AIDS and death in gay literature. : David Feinberg, Tony Kushner, Armistead Maupin. Klein-Scholz, Christelle 21 November 2014 (has links) Cette thèse présente une réflexion sur lʼécriture du SIDA et de la mort dans la littérature gay américaine à travers les oeuvres de David Feinberg, Tony Kushner et Armistead Maupin. À la croisée dʼun thème (le SIDA) et dʼun type de littérature (la littérature gay, qui préexistait à lʼépidémie), cette étude prend en considération les multiples dimensions de lʼépidémie de VIH/SIDA : dans lʼobjectif dʼacquérir « une connaissance anthropologique par la littérature et le roman » (Laplantine), en passant outre les « traditional disciplinary boundaries » (Campbell & Kean), elle montre que, si le SIDA fut probablement un rendez-vous manqué avec lʼhistoire, ce ne fut pas le cas avec la littérature. Quand les médias, les pouvoirs publics, les autorités sanitaires et la population générale nʼont pas pris la mesure de la catastrophe, les auteurs gays, eux, ont pris le SIDA à bras le corps, en même temps que le VIH prenait possession du leur, et ont produit des oeuvres qui méritent un travail dʼexégèse, notamment parce que lʼépidémie de VIH/SIDA nʼest toujours pas sous contrôle. À partir des oeuvres de ces auteurs, qui constituent un échantillon tant au niveau générique quʼen termes de réception, elle montre que la littérature gay du SIDA ne constitue tout au plus quʼune césure, et non une rupture, avec les littératures qui lʼont précédée. Le corps écorché par le SIDA prend, à cause de cette épidémie anachronique (apparue à une époque où les hommes semblaient pouvoir avoir la conviction que les épidémies appartenaient au passé), une place centrale dans les vies et dans les oeuvres. Le corps mourant devient un topos, à la fois un lieu dʼexploration et le principe qui informe le texte. / This dissertation explores the way AIDS and death are treated in American gay literature, with a focus on works by David Feinberg, Tony Kushner and Armistead Maupin. At a crossroads where a theme (AIDS) meets a type of literature (gay literature, which pre-existed the epidemic), this dissertation takes into account the many dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: aiming at anthropological knowledge through literature (Laplantine), moving "beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries" (Campbell & Kean), it shows that, when it comes to AIDS, history probably missed the boat, but literature did not. The media, the government officials, the health authorities and the general population never took the full measure of the HIV/AIDS crisis; gay authors, by contrast, fully confronted the epidemic, while HIV was taking hold in their bodies, and produced works that deserve to be read and examined, notably because, three decades after the first cases, the HIV/AIDS epidemic still is not under control. Based on an examination of works by the three authors, that constitute a sample both in generic terms (autobiography/autofiction, novel, drama) and in terms of reception, it shows that the gay literature of AIDS is, at most, a crack or a slit, not a breakaway from the literatures that came before. As a result of this anachronistic epidemic (it appeared at a time when Man seemed to be able to believe that epidemics were a thing of the past), the body wounded by AIDS takes center stage in their lives and in their works. The dying body becomes a topos, a place of exploration and the motif that structures the text. Corps Humour Identité gay Langage Littérature gay du SIDA Maladie Mort Body Humor Gay identity Language Gay AIDS literature Disease/illness Death
4	Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale Gastaldi, Sciltian 20 March 2014 (has links) Abstract This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings. Pier Vittorio Tondelli Italian Literature Gay Literature 20th Century Italian Literature Minor Literature Engagement Social Engagement Camp Gay Studies Queer Studies Queer Theory Literary Criticism Impegno Elio Vittorini Impegno e letteratura Impegno e intellettuali Pier Paolo Pasolini Italo Calvino Franco Fortini Leonardo Sciascia Umberto Eco Alberto Arbasino Letteratura del XX secolo Letteratura italiana contemporanea Impegno sociale Letteratura minore Critica letteraria Letteratura del '900 Antonio Gramsci Homophobia Gender Studies Omofobia AIDS Literature HIV Literature Commitment Homoerotic Literature Separate Rooms Camere separate Other Libertines Altri libertini Dinnery Party Rimini Pao Pao Il diario del soldato Acci Correggio Reggio Emilia Narratori delle pianure Emilia Romagna Italia Italy Jesuit School Gesuiti Catholicism Cattolicesimo Beat Literature Pop Literature Noir Postmodernismo Postmoderno Postmodern Postmodernism Federico Fellini Eugenio Bolongaro Gary Cestaro Antonio Spadaro Fulvio Panzeri Religione Religion Pop Culture Mass Culture 1977 DAMS Bologna Movimento del '77 Michel Foucault Esther Newton 0298 0313 0401 0291 0318
5	Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale Gastaldi, Sciltian 20 March 2014 (has links) Abstract This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings. Pier Vittorio Tondelli Italian Literature Gay Literature 20th Century Italian Literature Minor Literature Engagement Social Engagement Camp Gay Studies Queer Studies Queer Theory Literary Criticism Impegno Elio Vittorini Impegno e letteratura Impegno e intellettuali Pier Paolo Pasolini Italo Calvino Franco Fortini Leonardo Sciascia Umberto Eco Alberto Arbasino Letteratura del XX secolo Letteratura italiana contemporanea Impegno sociale Letteratura minore Critica letteraria Letteratura del '900 Antonio Gramsci Homophobia Gender Studies Omofobia AIDS Literature HIV Literature Commitment Homoerotic Literature Separate Rooms Camere separate Other Libertines Altri libertini Dinnery Party Rimini Pao Pao Il diario del soldato Acci Correggio Reggio Emilia Narratori delle pianure Emilia Romagna Italia Italy Jesuit School Gesuiti Catholicism Cattolicesimo Beat Literature Pop Literature Noir Postmodernismo Postmoderno Postmodern Postmodernism Federico Fellini Eugenio Bolongaro Gary Cestaro Antonio Spadaro Fulvio Panzeri Religione Religion Pop Culture Mass Culture 1977 DAMS Bologna Movimento del '77 Michel Foucault Esther Newton 0298 0313 0401 0291 0318

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