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AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic

AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic

Long, Thomas Lawrence

Paperback

Series: Suny the Sociology of Culture

Medical ReferenceGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0791461688
ISBN13: 9780791461686
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 1 2005
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.

Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the end times. Their discourse grew out of a centuries-old American apocalypticism that included images of crisis, destruction, and ultimate renewal. In this book, Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to the medical crisis, prevent the spread of the disease, and treat the HIV infected.

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