ENGLISH 795 / Living with HIV/AIDS: On the Discourses of the Pandemic

3 unit(s)

D. Clark (cross-listed as

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The objective of this course will be rigorously and responsibly to reflect upon the work of writing and reading narratives in the midst of the AIDS pandemic, this through a careful consideration of selections from the proliferating archive by which HIV and AIDS is conceptualized, witnessed, and experienced. In particular, we will examine a range of recent theoretical discussions and memoirs by activists, caregivers, and people living with AIDS, each of which differently grapples with what Eve Sedgwick has called “the terrible accident” of HIV.