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AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis .
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Jan 1, 1989 · Considers the metaphors with which acquired immune deficiency syndrome is cloaked, the presentation of the illness as a plague, and its bearing on the way society views disease, sexuality, and catastrophe. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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Jan 22, 1989 · Susan Sontag's purpose in ''AIDS and Its Metaphors'' is to show how the way we talk and think about AIDS makes the disease even worse than it actually is. The metaphorical packaging of...
May 12, 2009 · AIDS (Disease), Metaphor Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 126294312
Oct 27, 1988 · AIDS and Its Metaphors. 1. “Plague” is the principal metaphor by which the AIDS epidemic is understood. And because of AIDS, the popular misidentification of cancer as an epidemic, even a plague, seems to be receding: AIDS has helped to divest cancer of much of its aura of shame, of the unspeakable. Plague, from the Latin plaga (stroke ...
Mar 16, 2012 · Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors : Susan Sontag : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Susan Sontag. Publication date. 1990. Topics. AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects., Metaphor., Tuberculosis in literature., Cancer in literature. Publisher. Doubleday. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Aug 25, 2001 · Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
