Introduction: Where Does AIDS Come from? -- Metaphors of Science -- Two Models of Health and Disease -- French Novels and the Construction of Otherness -- Degeneracy and Inversion: The Male Homosexual as Internal Other -- The Discourse of Degenerescence -- Inventing the Male "Homosexual" -- Literature as Medicine, or Medicine as Literature? -- Gender Indecision and Cultural Anxiety: Outing Zola -- Theory and Practice of the Experimental Novel -- Naturalism as Heterosexuality -- Queering Napoleon III? -- The Rambling Degenerate and the Instability of Authorship -- Reclaiming Disease and Infection: Jean Genet and the Politics of the Border -- Disease, Vermin, and Abjection -- Crossing Metaphorical Borders, or Contaminating Language -- Literal Borders -- A Cultural History of AIDS Discourse: France and the United States -- What AIDS Criticism? -- AIDS Representations -- Constructing the AIDS Sufferer -- AIDS and the Unraveling of Modernity: The Example of Herve Guibert -- Herve Guibert -- Returning the Doctor's Gaze -- The Diseased Subject -- The Discourse of Disease and the Disease of Discourse -- Gossip, Rumors, and the Margins of Modernity -- Conclusion: French Universalism and the Question of Community
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index
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