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AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.
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12 de mai. de 2009 · AIDS and its metaphors. by. Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Publication date. 1989. Topics. AIDS (Disease), Metaphor. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
22 de jan. de 1989 · Jan. 22, 1989. Susan Sontag's purpose in ''AIDS and Its Metaphors'' is to show how the way we talk and think about AIDS makes the disease even worse than it actually is. The metaphorical...
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Susan Sontag argues that AIDS is a disease that evokes the metaphors of war and plague, which are harmful and distorting. She contrasts the medical and public health response to AIDS with the cultural and social attitudes that perpetuate these myths.
The author analyzes the way society has viewed AIDS, as divine retribution, plague or total war, and dispels racist ideas that AIDS originates from deepest Africa. A sequel, or extended afterthought in the form of an essay, to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metaphor", in the light of AIDS.
25 de ago. de 2001 · Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Susan Sontag. Macmillan, Aug 25, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 183 pages. Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now...
