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Likewise, Sontag's assertion that AIDS is unlikely to be a new disease (p. 71) is unsupported. Perhaps because the medical and public health response to AIDS has explicitly avoided metaphor and has worked toward dispelling societal myths, Sontag writes more evenhandedly about AIDS and its metaphors. Her focus is narrower than in the earlier essay.
8 de set. de 2007 · Many of the myths concerning cancer arose from ignorance about its causes, an aspect Sontag discusses in her companion essay, AIDS and its Metaphors. This piece, written at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, examines in terms similar to those used in the earlier work how the disease was being described at the time, when there was much talk of contamination, plagues, and punishment.
1 de jan. de 1989 · Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays.
Affiliation 1 Department of Community Medicine, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.; PMID: 2609204 DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(89)90071-3
27 de out. de 1988 · 1. “Plague” is the principal metaphor by which the AIDS epidemic is understood. And because of AIDS, the popular misidentification of cancer as an epidemic, even a plague, seems to be receding: AIDS has helped to divest cancer of much of its aura of shame, of the unspeakable. Plague, from the Latin plaga (stroke, wound), has long been used ...
28 de jun. de 2021 · Thanks for this insightful comparison of the two events, AIDS and Covid. Special thanks for revivifying Sontag’s views. When I taught “AIDS and Its Metaphors” this Spring, my students were especially taken with Sontag’s observation that to say there are “innocent” victims is to imply that there are guilty ones.
Written before the emergence of A ID S, Sontag’s thesis is none the less acutely relevant to that disease. AIDS and Its Metaphors is her long-awaited consideration of the metaphors with which this illness is encumbered and distorted - particularly the metaphor of plague — and of the appetite in our society for apocalyptic scenarios.
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