AIDS Literature

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AIDS Literature (Identities and Issues in Literature)

History

AIDS has quickly reached North America’s consciousness and culture since its beginning manifestations there in the early 1980’s. At that time, before AIDS was even recognized as a viral disease, it had a frightening and powerful impact on the identities of those infected, and on the imaginations of everyone. Discrete periods of AIDS consciousness have been identified by AIDS theorists, and there are definable attributes of comprehension as evidenced in the media and general populace. Little was known about AIDS at first, but the medical and technological knowledge...

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