Christine Cynn is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.Jennifer Lavoie is instructor of English and American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Bringing together both literature and the visual arts in the depiction of the HIV/AIDS crisis from a global perspective, Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS makes a significant contribution to our understanding and witness of this epidemic and how it impacts the lives and institutions of people around the world. The contributions to this collection are nuanced and lasting, making us empathetic to the suffering and calling for us an ethical response to it.

• Chapter 1: Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: An Introduction, Christine Cynn and Aimee PozorskiChapter 2: Countering the Plague: AIDS Theatre as a Site of Memory, Dirk Visser Chapter 3: Poetry before Protease, Nels P. Highberg Chapter 4: Early Representations of “IT”: AIDS, The American Canon, and Robert Ferro’s Second Son, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Chapter 5: Borrowed Time, Body Counts, and the Nearness of Others: Three Approaches to AIDS Memoirs, Jennifer Lavoie Chapter 6: Guibert before Guibert: AIDS and Literary Creation, Mariarosa LoddoChapter 7: The Dream, the Disease, and the Disaster: On Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village, Shelley W. Chan Chapter 8: Abortion and Family as HIV Prevention Strategies: Kitia Touré’s Les gestes ou la vie, Christine Cynn Chapter 9: When “Safe” Isn’t Safe: Reflecting on the Role of Science in the Production of Harmful Discourse of HIV/AIDS, Alison Patev Chapter 10: Exceptional PrEParations: Pharmaceutical Interventions, Neoliberal Queerness, and Truvada, Andy Eicher Chapter 11: “We should be embracing the infected, the HIV-positive, and showering them not only with love, but with medical care and psychosocial services”: An Interview with Michael Broder, Jennifer Lavoie and Michael Broder

Christine Cynn is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.Jennifer Lavoie is instructor of English and American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Bringing together both literature and the visual arts in the depiction of the HIV/AIDS crisis from a global perspective, Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS makes a significant contribution to our understanding and witness of this epidemic and how it impacts the lives and institutions of people around the world. The contributions to this collection are nuanced and lasting, making us empathetic to the suffering and calling for us an ethical response to it.

• Chapter 1: Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: An Introduction, Christine Cynn and Aimee PozorskiChapter 2: Countering the Plague: AIDS Theatre as a Site of Memory, Dirk Visser Chapter 3: Poetry before Protease, Nels P. Highberg Chapter 4: Early Representations of “IT”: AIDS, The American Canon, and Robert Ferro’s Second Son, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Chapter 5: Borrowed Time, Body Counts, and the Nearness of Others: Three Approaches to AIDS Memoirs, Jennifer Lavoie Chapter 6: Guibert before Guibert: AIDS and Literary Creation, Mariarosa LoddoChapter 7: The Dream, the Disease, and the Disaster: On Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village, Shelley W. Chan Chapter 8: Abortion and Family as HIV Prevention Strategies: Kitia Touré’s Les gestes ou la vie, Christine Cynn Chapter 9: When “Safe” Isn’t Safe: Reflecting on the Role of Science in the Production of Harmful Discourse of HIV/AIDS, Alison Patev Chapter 10: Exceptional PrEParations: Pharmaceutical Interventions, Neoliberal Queerness, and Truvada, Andy Eicher Chapter 11: “We should be embracing the infected, the HIV-positive, and showering them not only with love, but with medical care and psychosocial services”: An Interview with Michael Broder, Jennifer Lavoie and Michael Broder

Christine Cynn is associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.Jennifer Lavoie is instructor of English and American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Bringing together both literature and the visual arts in the depiction of the HIV/AIDS crisis from a global perspective, Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS makes a significant contribution to our understanding and witness of this epidemic and how it impacts the lives and institutions of people around the world. The contributions to this collection are nuanced and lasting, making us empathetic to the suffering and calling for us an ethical response to it.

• Chapter 1: Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: An Introduction, Christine Cynn and Aimee PozorskiChapter 2: Countering the Plague: AIDS Theatre as a Site of Memory, Dirk Visser Chapter 3: Poetry before Protease, Nels P. Highberg Chapter 4: Early Representations of “IT”: AIDS, The American Canon, and Robert Ferro’s Second Son, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Chapter 5: Borrowed Time, Body Counts, and the Nearness of Others: Three Approaches to AIDS Memoirs, Jennifer Lavoie Chapter 6: Guibert before Guibert: AIDS and Literary Creation, Mariarosa LoddoChapter 7: The Dream, the Disease, and the Disaster: On Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village, Shelley W. Chan Chapter 8: Abortion and Family as HIV Prevention Strategies: Kitia Touré’s Les gestes ou la vie, Christine Cynn Chapter 9: When “Safe” Isn’t Safe: Reflecting on the Role of Science in the Production of Harmful Discourse of HIV/AIDS, Alison Patev Chapter 10: Exceptional PrEParations: Pharmaceutical Interventions, Neoliberal Queerness, and Truvada, Andy Eicher Chapter 11: “We should be embracing the infected, the HIV-positive, and showering them not only with love, but with medical care and psychosocial services”: An Interview with Michael Broder, Jennifer Lavoie and Michael Broder