From the “Homosexual Clone” to the “AIDS Clone”: the Impact of AIDS on the Body of the Gay Male
“From the ‘homosexual clone’ to the ‘AIDS clone’: the impact of AIDS on the body of the gay male.” This paper examines how tremendously AIDS has changed the body of the gay male, starting with an examination of the figure of the “homosexual clone” as described by Martin Levine, for whom the glorific...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4153 |
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| Summary: | “From the ‘homosexual clone’ to the ‘AIDS clone’: the impact of AIDS on the body of the gay male.” This paper examines how tremendously AIDS has changed the body of the gay male, starting with an examination of the figure of the “homosexual clone” as described by Martin Levine, for whom the glorification of the body that was current in gay neighborhoods before AIDS was a subversive form of self-construction. Barely a few years later, writer David Feinberg pits this figure against that of the “AIDS clone” and shows how deeply the gay male body and the way it is thought of have changed. When it comes to describing the pain incurred by those young bodies dying of AIDS, words seem to fail: as bodies decay and disappear, loss of identity is a great risk. Which is where writing comes in: pathography can be seen as a way to preserve one's identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |