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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.
- Susan Sontag
- 1989
12 mag 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 gen 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...
AIDS brings together two powerful metaphors about illness. First, AIDS develops further the theme (seen earlier in cancer) of disease as invader: the enemy invades and destroys you from within. Thus, AIDS strengthens the use of military metaphors in medicine.
17 giu 1989 · 17 June 1989. AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag, Allen Lane (Penguin), pp 95, Pounds sterling 9.95. ACCORDING to Susan Sontag ‘plague’ is the principal metaphor by which. we understand...
A sequel, or extended afterthought in the form of an essay, to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metaphor", in the light of AIDS. 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.
Synopsis. Illness as Metaphor served as a way for Susan Sontag to express her opinions on the use of metaphors in order to refer to illnesses, with her main focuses being tuberculosis and cancer. The book contrasts the viewpoints and metaphors associated with each disease.
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