Viral Voyages

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Beginning the Journey

   1. Beginning the Journey

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 1-5

3. Logbook of an HIV-Positive Voyage

   1. Logbook of an HIV-Positive Voyage

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 7-79

4. Viral Voyagers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Itinerant Infirmity

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 83-116

   3. The Comings and Goings of the Infectious Tourist

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 117-144

   4. Back to the Nations of Death

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 145-173

   5. Female Disappearance Syndrome

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 175-199

   6. Happy Hour?, or The Cocktail Era

      • Lina Meruane

      Pages 201-223

5. Back Matter

   Pages 225-244

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This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

• AIDS
• America
• community
• globalization
• Nation

Author Lina Meruane: Lina Meruane teaches Latin American Cultures in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, USA. Translated by Andrea Rosenberg: Andrea Rosenberg translates literary and academic texts from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translation of David Jiménez s Children of the Monsoon was recently published by Autumn Hill Books. She is currently working on a novel by Leopoldo Brizuela with the support of a Fulbright grant.

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