Guilt, daily life, and love: AIDS narratives in the time of triple therapies

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  • Karen Poe Lang University of Costa Rica.

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.8.10609

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AIDS, triple therapies, Hispanic American literature, guilt, daily life, love

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the portrayal of triple therapy (a combination of three antiviral drugs proposed at the Vancouver International AIDS Conference in 1996) in three literary texts belonging to the Latin American HIV-positive corpus. Our aim is to track the changes in relation to previous AIDS narratives in three areas: feelings of guilt, everyday life and the search for love/eroticism. The selected corpus consists on the autobiography Un año sin amor. Diario del sida (1998) by the Argentine author Pablo Pérez, the novel La promesante (2001) by the Nicaraguan writer Rosario Aguilar and the chronicle Vivir con virus. Relatos de la vida cotidiana (2004) by the Argentine journalist Marta Dillon.

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Author Biography

Karen Poe Lang, University of Costa Rica.

Full Professor at the University of Costa Rica. Researcher associated to the Transcaribe Network. Professor at the PhD programme for Cultural Studies and other PhD programmes of the University of Costa Rica. She has published several books, Eros pervertido. La novela decadente en el modernismo hispanoamericano (Biblioteca Nueva, 2010) among them, with which she obtained the Essay Award of the Costa Rican Academy of Language in 2012. In 2015 she organised the international conference «Entre literatura y medicina. Narrativas transatlánticas de la enfermedad (América Latina, el Caribe y España)» in San José (Costa Rica).

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Dillon, M. (2004). Vivir con virus. Relatos de la vida cotidiana. Buenos Aires: Norma. 

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Poe, K. (2016). Intermedialidad y estética neobarroca en Loco afán. Crónicas de sidario de Pedro Lemebel. Textos Híbridos, 5, 109–128.

Vaggione, A. (2014). Literatura/enfermedad. Escrituras sobre sida en América Latina. Córdoba: Centro de Estudios Avanzados. 

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2018-06-05

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Poe Lang, K. (2018). Guilt, daily life, and love: AIDS narratives in the time of triple therapies. Metode Science Studies Journal, (8), 239–245. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.8.10609
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Making science: A multitude of perspectives (2018)

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Narrating health. Literature and medicine

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