The Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Latin American Literature Open Access
White, Richard Christopher (2011)
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Abstract
By 2008 there were over two million people living with HIV/AIDS
in Latin America. Since the
pandemic began in the 1980s, it has begun to find literary
treatment in the Latin American
context, becoming especially visible in the 1990s. Four works were
selected from the 1990s that
represent a panoramic view of the literary response to AIDS in
Latin America: Salón de belleza
by Mario Bellatin (Mexico, 1999), Un año sin amor by
Pablo Pérez (Argentina, 1998), Pájaros
de la playa by Severo Sarduy (Cuba, 1993), and Loco
afán: crónicas de sidario by Pedro
Lemebel (Chile, 1996). These selected works feature characters
infected with HIV/AIDS, both
implicitly and explicitly. The treatment of illness is unique to
each work, varying in how the
individual's life is impacted, and in how society reacts to (and
perhaps perpetuates) such a
chronic illness. These diverse treatments of HIV/AIDS may
nevertheless be unified by the
common interpretation of their representations of illness as a
metaphor for marginalization and
social exclusion.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction.......................................................................................1
Salón de belleza (1999).......................................................................7
Un año sin amor (1998).....................................................................19
Pájaros de la playa (1993)..................................................................27
Loco afán (1996)...............................................................................36
Conclusion........................................................................................53
Works Cited......................................................................................63
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