Embodying contagion : the viropolitics of horror and desire in contemporary discourse /: the viropolitics of horror and desire in contemporary discourse. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Sara Polak.
• Editors: Becker, Sandra; Bruin-Molé, Megen de; Polak, Sara
• Contents: Notes on ContributorsPrefaceEmbodying the Fantasies and Realities of ContagionPart I: Epidemic Fantasies in RealityChapter 1: The Krokodil Drug Menace, Cross-Genre Body Horror, and the Zombie ApocalypseChapter 2: Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic and the Ebola Scare – How the CDC’s Use of Zombie Pop Culture Helped Fan a Nationalist Outbreak NarrativeChapter 3: The Zika Virus, Ebola Contagion Narratives, and U.S. Obsessions with Securitizing Neglected Infectious DiseasesChapter 4: An Affectionate Epidemic: How Disability Goes Viral on Social MediaChapter 5: ‘Fatties Cause Global Warming’: The Strange Entanglement of Obesity and Climate ChangePart II: Epidemic Realities in FantasyChapter 6: ‘Time is of the Essence, Doctor’: Twenty-First Century (Post-)Apocalyptic Fiction, White Fatherhood, and Anti-Intellectual Tendencies in FX’s The StrainChapter 7: Killable Hordes, Chronic Others, and ‘Mindful’ Consumers: Rehabilitating the Zombie in Twenty-First-Century Popular CultureChapter 8: Networks, Desire, and Risk Management in Gay Contagion FictionChapter 9: This Long Disease, My Life:’ AIDS Activism and Contagious Bodies in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and The Destiny of MeChapter 10: The Epidemic of History: Contagion of the Past in the Era of the Never-Ending Present‘Contagion Contagion’: Viral Metaphors, Lockdown and Suffering Economies in the COVID-19 PandemicBibliography
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.933561; Communicable diseases in literature; Communicable diseases in popular culture; Epidemics in literature; Epidemics in popular culture; Diseases and literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786836915; 9781786836922; 9781786836939
• Related ISBNs: 9781786836908
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• Access Rights: Open access.
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