Enemies within

Description:

"Enemies Within presents the literature and film of the cold war and AIDS eras as evidence, manifestation, and symptom of the recurring ills of our postnuclear time: global threat, buried fears, and a paranoid reaction to the infectious other. Foertsch argues that our shared experience of and response to AIDS not only significantly resembles but also emerged directly from its midcentury predecessor, which conditioned us to dread worldwide biological disaster and an invisible enemy. She considers the "false binaries" (straight/gay, patriot/traitor, healthy/infected) that promise protection from an invasive threat and the utopian impulse to purge, homogenize, and relocate problematic individuals outside the city walls."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: AIDS (Disease),  AIDS (Disease) in literature,  AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures,  American literature,  Cold War,  Cold War in literature,  Cold War in motion pictures,  History,  History and criticism,  Postmodernism,  Postmodernism (Literature),  Social aspects of Cold War,  Histoire,  Postmodernisme,  Soziale Probleme,  AIDS,  History, 20th Century,  Postmodernisme (Littérature),  Guerre froide au cinéma,  Sida au cinéma,  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,  Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures,  Culture in motion pictures,  Aspect social,  Literatur,  Medicine in Literature,  Guerre froide,  Sida,  Cold War (1945-1989) in literature,  Histoire et critique,  Sida dans la littérature,  Guerre froide dans la littérature,  Social aspects,  Littérature américaine,  Ost-West-Konflikt,  Film,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Postmodernism (literature)

Places: United States

Times: 20th century