Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as 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.

Gustavo Subero is a Researcher in Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies in the UK. He is the author of Queer Masculinity in Latin American Cinema: Male Bodies and Representations and editor of HIV in World Cultures: Three Decades of Representations.

Chapter 1 HIV/AIDS, Deviance and Plague Imagery in Anahi Berneri's Un año sin amor and Jochen Hick's Via Appia; Chapter 2 Constructing the Visual Rhetoric of AIDS in the Photographic Work of Mario Vivado and Hector Toscano; Chapter 3 HIV, Edu-entertainment and Female Subjectivity in La cara oculta de la luna; Chapter 4 1An earlier version of this chapter first appeared in HIV in World Cultures: Three Decades of Representations (Ashgate 2013); Chapter 5 Narrativizing HIV Positive Bodies in the Literatures of Hispano-America;