Enemies within

By Jacqueline Foertsch

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

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.