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This lecture, organized by the School of English and Foreign Languages, The Gandhigram Rural Inst... more This lecture, organized by the School of English and Foreign Languages, The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University) Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, introduces the key concepts in Health Humanities including the difference between medical humanities and health humanities, narrative types, and landmark books on Health Humanities. 93 views
Papers by Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Medical Humanities, 2024
Ageing, an inevitable biological process, is often oversimplified, subjecting elderly individuals... more Ageing, an inevitable biological process, is often oversimplified, subjecting elderly individuals to both positive and negative sociocultural stereotypes. Elderly individuals are stigmatised as passive, suffering and asexual, while simultaneously being expected to embody an active, successful and productive approach towards ageing. Departing from these narrow perceptions, this article draws examples from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s graphic narrative Blossoms in Autumn to provide a nuanced perspective on the ageing process. Using the affordances of comics, this essay examines how Blossoms in Autumn addresses unarticulated aspects of ageing, including changing bodily features, sexuality and intimacy, among others. In so doing, this essay challenges the unilateral perceptions of ageing.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024
Medical neoliberalism has precipitated a significant shift away from the patient-centric approach... more Medical neoliberalism has precipitated a significant shift away from the patient-centric approach to a profit-driven paradigm that prioritises the interests of corporations and shareholders over the well-being of patients. Consequently, there is a shortage of funding for adult social care resulting in compromised service quality. Taking these cues, the article close-reads some sections of Nigel Baines’s Afloat: A Memoir about Mum, Dementia, and Trying Not to Drown (2019) in order to demonstrate how graphic medicine offers multifaceted critique of the NHS and social care arrangements in the UK through nuanced visualisations. Baines deploys a series of visual metaphors to concretise his challenges in quest of an appropriate care arrangement for his dementia-afflicted mother. In particular, Baines deploys thought-provoking board game metaphors (such as the snake and ladder board) and the Yeatsian symbol of gyre to introspect the fine-grained workings of medical neoliberalism and its impact on social care. The article concludes by discussing how Afloat operates as a critical lens exposing the intricacies emblematic of healthcare environments and the deeply rooted vulnerabilities enmeshed within the system.
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Journal of Medical Humanities , 2024
Close-reading sequential comics and cartoons such as He Zhu's "Lockdown," Rivi Handler-Spitz's "M... more Close-reading sequential comics and cartoons such as He Zhu's "Lockdown," Rivi Handler-Spitz's "Morning Commute," Yang Ji's "Quarantine," and Thi Bui, Will Evans, Sarah Mirk, Amanda Pike, and Esther Kaplan's "In/Vulnerable," this article investigates the networked spatial crises that have emerged during COVID-19. As the global pandemic reshaped social, economic, and cultural landscapes, it is crucial to understand the spatial implications of these transformations. By analyzing graphic medical texts, which serve as visual narratives that capture the lived experiences and perceptions of individuals within these crises, the present essay offers a nuanced exploration of the intricate relationships between space, society, and the effects of the pandemic. The article identifies and examines the various spatial crises that have emerged in the COVID era, such as disrupted urban environments, altered social dynamics, spaces of contamination, contraction of space, and the reconfiguration of workspaces. Drawing on theorists like Michael Foucault and Henri Lefebvre, this essay illustrates how these crisis-induced spatial transformations are represented, experienced, and contested. Ultimately, the article not only contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between the pandemic and space but also addresses the challenges of our evolving world.
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BMJ/Medical Humanities , 2024
Looking beyond anthropocentric care relationships reveals nuanced levels of interdependence among... more Looking beyond anthropocentric care relationships reveals nuanced levels of interdependence among human and non-human entities. Attention to these heterogeneous inter-relationships illuminates the subtle and visceral affective intensities among diverse participants, including humans, objects and the environment, among others. The interdisciplinary field of graphic medicine foregrounds these entanglements through comic affordances, challenging the predominant notion that care belongs only at the scale of human beings. This article analyses selected sections from graphic medical narratives such as Brian Fies’s Mom’s Cancer, Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles and Joyce Farmer’s Special Exits to illustrate how objects become a source of care for humans during illness, thus becoming care objects. Furthermore, using the affordances of comics, this essay examines, how the selected sections of the abovementioned graphic narratives portray the often unnoticed/overlooked affective entanglement between the sufferers and objects. In doing so, this article underscores the inter-relatedness between humans and non-human entities within the context of caregiving.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics , 2024
Wildfires are both a devastating reality and a growing concern in
the face of our changing clima... more Wildfires are both a devastating reality and a growing concern in
the face of our changing climate. Brian Fies’s A Fire Story is a graphic
narrative that sensitively presents the harrowing experiences of
losing his home to Northern California wildfires (2017). This article
offers insights from an email interview with Fies, examining the
distinctive narrative affordances of the comic medium. The interview is divided into two sections. Part one titled ‘Drawn from the
Ashes: Of Comics and Climate Change,’ Fies responds to questions
regarding the artistic choices (visual storytelling elements etc.) he
made to convey the emotional spectrum of the wildfire experience.
Part two, titled ‘Rebuilding from Ashes: Resilience and Realities,’ Fies
presents his perspective on the role of personal storytelling in
addressing climate change and resilience. Put together, Fies reflects
on the potential of comics to evoke empathy, raise awareness, and
enable meaningful dialogue on urgent issues such as wildfires,
climate resilience and natural disasters. In so doing, the present
interview contributes to the discussion on the intersection of
comics, personal narrative, and environmental crises, offering
a nuanced understanding of the role of graphic storytelling in
conveying the impact of natural disasters.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024
Wildfires are both a devastating reality and a growing concern in the face of our changing climat... more Wildfires are both a devastating reality and a growing concern in the face of our changing climate. Brian Fies’s A Fire Story is a graphic narrative that sensitively presents the harrowing experiences of losing his home to Northern California wildfires (2017). This article offers insights from an email interview with Fies, examining the distinctive narrative affordances of the comic medium. The interview is divided into two sections. Part one titled ‘Drawn from the Ashes: Of Comics and Climate Change,’ Fies responds to questions regarding the artistic choices (visual storytelling elements etc.) he made to convey the emotional spectrum of the wildfire experience. Part two, titled ‘Rebuilding from Ashes: Resilience and Realities,’ Fies presents his perspective on the role of personal storytelling in addressing climate change and resilience. Put together, Fies reflects on the potential of comics to evoke empathy, raise awareness, and enable meaningful dialogue on urgent issues such as wildfires, climate resilience and natural disasters. In so doing, the present interview contributes to the discussion on the intersection of comics, personal narrative, and environmental crises, offering a nuanced understanding of the role of graphic storytelling in conveying the impact of natural disasters.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024
Nursing home care across world have predominantly undergone a progressive marketisation in recent... more Nursing home care across world have predominantly undergone a progressive marketisation in recent decades, characterised by the dominance of neoliberal values such as productivity, profit motive among others. The looming economic costs and the social-political preferences for neoliberal values have placed the need to provide care for increasing number of older people with complex care needs low on government agendas. As the result, the experiential realities of the stakeholders: care providers, care receivers and their families are often overlooked and undervalued. Susan MacLeod’s Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care (2021), besides demonstrating underrepresented and unarticulated of realities of Canadian nursing home care and critiquing the system in place, emphasises the need to reconcile and embrace the long-term care system. Taking cues from the graphic memoir, this article examines how the network of relationships in nursing homes impacts each other and the care provided to the residents. In so doing, the essay brings to light the necessities for coordinated functioning of the system. Utilizing the affordances of comics, the article also examines how evaluating care work based on capitalist standards coerces the care workers to compromise the quality of care provided to the residents.
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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2024
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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2024
While masks have functioned as important cultural artifacts, religious symbols, costume pieces, a... more While masks have functioned as important cultural artifacts, religious symbols, costume pieces, and components of social identity throughout history, in the current biopsychosocial context (of the COVID-19 pandemic), they predominantly refer to medical masks. This article, after reviewing the comprehensive and complex history (and evolution) of masks, seeks to investigate the symbolism and attitudes toward masking in the wake of COVID-19 through a detailed analysis of single-paneled images and sequential comics by artists such as Michael Green, Clare McCarthy, and illustrator Isabel Seliger (for NPR), who delineates the experiences of Agnes Boisvert, an ICU nurse. The article relates the issue of masking with the semiotics of identity, anonymity, responses of healthcare professionals, collective responsibility, and anti-masking attitudes, among others. This research further draws attention to the potential of the comics medium in visualizing and expressing sentiments around (anti)masking and concludes by showing how biological, cultural, political, and social forces inform and influence discourses around masking.
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Journal of Medical Humanities , 2024
Graphic medicine, an interdisciplinary field situated at the crossroads of comics and healthcare,... more Graphic medicine, an interdisciplinary field situated at the crossroads of comics and healthcare, operates as a medium through which the intricate nature of experiences with illness can be articulated, challenging orthodox medical dogmatism in an engaging and accessible way. Combining the affordances of comics and the narrative power of storytelling, graphic medicine elucidates the socio-cultural stigmatization of dementia influenced by a multitude of discourses. Diverging from existing discourses that depict individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) as zombies, brain-dead, or empty shells, graphic memoirs reconstruct these reductive notions and represent them as imaginative, productive, and perceptive. Taking these cues, the present paper close reads some sections of Dana Walrath's (2016) Aliceheimer's: Alzheimer's Through the Looking Glass in order to demonstrate how graphic medicine reconceptualizes the preeminent hallucinatory experiences of her AD-afflicted mother, Alice, as visions. Walrath deploys collage art to epitomize Alice's ordeal with AD. In particular, Walrath deploys thought-provoking fragments from Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland, strategically to proximate Alice's experiences with AD and tackle the problem of dementia and sociality. Additionally, the paper explores how the text fosters interdependence, respect, and trust to recognize and restore Alice's personhood. The paper concludes by discussing how Aliceheimer's operates as an alternative paradigm beyond the confines of biomedical and cultural models of dementia through the use of lexical puissance.
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Medical Humanities , 2024
Much like face masks, hand sanitisers have become a household item and a prominent symbol since t... more Much like face masks, hand sanitisers have become a household item and a prominent symbol since the COVID-19 pandemic. As sanitisers began to be widely used, contingent issues related to toxic ingredients in sanitising products, heightened pandemic-related anxiety, unscrupulous profiteering through inflated sanitiser prices, obsessive sanitisation, contamination fear, stockpiling, panic buying, and concerns regarding the overall effectiveness of hand sanitisers emerged. Building on these themes, the present article investigates the various issues related to sanitisers after a brief review of the history of sanitisers. To do so, the present article analyses sequential comics and single-panelled cartoons from comic artists such as Randall Munroe, Sarah Morrisette, Shivesh Shrivastava and Dan McConnell. This essay extends its inquiry beyond examining sanitisation practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated cultural implications. Drawing on insights from Object Oriented Ontology, this article brings to relief how sanitisers have evolved into objects that hold, govern and shape our modern existence. Furthermore, the present article highlights how the comic medium visually enunciates the lived experiences of the pandemic, rituals of sanitising and associated issues.
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Medical Humanities, British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2024
Much like face masks, hand sanitisers have become a household item and a prominent symbol since t... more Much like face masks, hand sanitisers have become a household item and a prominent symbol since the COVID-19 pandemic. As sanitisers began to be widely used, contingent issues related to toxic ingredients in sanitising products, heightened pandemic-related anxiety, unscrupulous profiteering through inflated sanitiser prices, obsessive sanitisation, contamination fear, stockpiling, panic buying, and concerns regarding the overall effectiveness of hand sanitisers emerged. Building on these themes, the present article investigates the various issues related to sanitisers after a brief review of the history of sanitisers. To do so, the present article analyses sequential comics and single-panelled cartoons from comic artists such as Randall Munroe, Sarah Morrisette, Shivesh Shrivastava and Dan McConnell. This essay extends its inquiry beyond examining sanitisation practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated cultural implications. Drawing on insights from Object Oriented Ontology, this article brings to relief how sanitisers have evolved into objects that hold, govern and shape our modern existence. Furthermore, the present article highlights how the comic medium visually enunciates the lived experiences of the pandemic, rituals of sanitising and associated issues.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024
Climate change has profoundly impacted ecosystems, communities, and individuals worldwide. Climat... more Climate change has profoundly impacted ecosystems, communities, and individuals worldwide. Climate change comics have emerged as a powerful medium for raising environmental awareness, particularly by highlighting the emotional toll it takes on humans. This paper examines the graphic narrative, A Fire Story: A Memoir by Brian Fies, which depicts the devastating wildfire disaster that struck Northern California in 2017. The narrative effectively conveys the ecological and human habitat destruction caused by climate change-induced natural disasters through autobiographical and witnesses accounts. It offers reflections on the past, present, and future while challenging climate denial and exploring themes of climate grief and resilience. The narrative explores how the traumatic event disrupts personal chronology and exposes the emotional vulnerability of survivors in their post-disaster lives. This article analyzes climate grief and resilience in climate change comics, emphasising the significance of A Fire Story as a valuable artefact that documents the testimonies of witnesses and survivors. To challenge climate denial, graphic narratives go beyond generalities and present highly detailed and emotionally charged narratives, including social fragmentation, forced evacuation, and economic devastation.
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Economic and Political Weekly, 2024
"Green Humour for a Greying Planet" bridges the knowledge gap in public awareness through creativ... more "Green Humour for a Greying Planet" bridges the knowledge gap in public awareness through creative storytelling.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024
Oil evokes a range of emotions, from the promise of prosperity to the reality of environmental de... more Oil evokes a range of emotions, from the promise of prosperity to the reality of environmental degradation and corporate greed. A growing number of graphic narratives (such as Gasoline Dreams) are exploring the ‘cruel optimism,’ to use Lauren Berlant’s term, of oil. Crude: A Memoir is one such graphic narrative that through the memories of Pablo Fajardo exposes the intricate networks of extraction, the paraphernalia of the corporation-state nexus, and the contradictions of petromodernity through the use of visual storytelling techniques such as point of view, focalisation, and colour palette. This graphic narrative solicits an empathetic response from its readers by revealing the ethical and affective aspects of this environmental disaster. Drawing insights from energy humanities and comics studies, this article, through the close reading of Crude: A Memoir, investigates the toxicities of oil-modernity, the role of state infrastructure, and the global matrixes of power. Put together, Crude performs a kind of grassroot justice in that the memoir names the abusers who seem to be immune to justice, shows the plight of the Indigenous ‘collateral damage’ and the environmental degradation that result when legal protections are not afforded to those most vulnerable (including human, plant, animal, water, and mineral entities).
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2023
Indian graphic narratives of the post-millennial era have increasingly addressed pressing social ... more Indian graphic narratives of the post-millennial era have increasingly addressed pressing social issues such as casteism, environmental degradation, and urbanisation among others. Comics about caste typically showcase the remarkable lives of anti-caste icons in the form of graphic biographies, such as Bhimayana: Incidents in the Life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Vyam et al. 2011) and A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule’s Fight for Liberty (Natarajan 2011). Published in 2022, Samarth’s Suit continues a post-millennial trend by depicting safai karamcharis (transl. sanitation workers in India), who have been historically forced to engage in manual scavenging, as salaried employees in a futuristic setting with protective suits while also confronting the persisting social issue of casteism. In particular, Suit expands the conversation about caste and comics by boldly depicting the inhumane treatment and illegal practice of manual scavenging (which is rampant in Mumbai) and its entanglements with casteism. In this context, Samarth in an email interview shares his views on caste and comics in India, emphasising the need for greater representation and discussion of marginalised communities, and highlighting the importance of shedding light on issues like manual scavenging, which continue to affect Dalits and other oppressed groups in India.
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Journal of Graphic Novel and Comics, 2023
Public health is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a wide range of activities and initia... more Public health is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a wide range of activities and initiatives aimed at preventing diseases, addressing health disparities, promoting healthy behaviours, studying patterns, and improving the overall health of communities. Within this landscape, comics emerge as a dynamic tool for raising awareness, promoting healthy behaviour, enhancing understanding of public health messages, and effectively reaching diverse audiences, including those with low health literacy and language barriers. Notably, Meredith Li-Vollmer's Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Roadmap assumes a prominent role in this framework. Published by Graphic Mundi (an imprint of the Penn State University Press) in 2022, this anthology attests to the power of the comic medium to facilitate health communication while delving into a wide-ranging public healthrelated theme. This email interview with Li-Vollmer follows a tripartite structure. In the inaugural segment, titled 'The Artist,' Li-Vollmer offers a comprehensive exposition of her artistic processes. In the subsequent segment titled 'Comics and Public Health,' Li-Vollmer articulates the capacity of the comic medium to serve as a transformative agent in public health. Finally, in the concluding part, 'Graphic Public Health,' she deliberates on the core principles that shape her 2022 work on graphic public health.
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Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2023
Public health is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a wide range of activities and initia... more Public health is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a wide range of activities and initiatives aimed at preventing diseases, addressing health disparities, promoting healthy behaviours, studying patterns, and improving the overall health of communities. Within this landscape, comics emerge as a dynamic tool for raising awareness, promoting healthy behaviour, enhancing understanding of public health messages, and effectively reaching diverse audiences, including those with low health literacy and language barriers. Notably, Meredith Li-Vollmer’s Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Roadmap assumes a prominent role in this framework. Published by Graphic Mundi (an imprint of the Penn State University Press) in 2022, this anthology attests to the power of the comic medium to facilitate health communication while delving into a wide-ranging public health-related theme. This email interview with Li-Vollmer follows a tripartite structure. In the inaugural segment, titled ‘The Artist,’ Li-Vollmer offers a comprehensive exposition of her artistic processes. In the subsequent segment titled ‘Comics and Public Health,’ Li-Vollmer articulates the capacity of the comic medium to serve as a transformative agent in public health. Finally, in the concluding part, ‘Graphic Public Health,’ she deliberates on the core principles that shape her 2022 work on graphic public health.
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the face of our changing climate. Brian Fies’s A Fire Story is a graphic
narrative that sensitively presents the harrowing experiences of
losing his home to Northern California wildfires (2017). This article
offers insights from an email interview with Fies, examining the
distinctive narrative affordances of the comic medium. The interview is divided into two sections. Part one titled ‘Drawn from the
Ashes: Of Comics and Climate Change,’ Fies responds to questions
regarding the artistic choices (visual storytelling elements etc.) he
made to convey the emotional spectrum of the wildfire experience.
Part two, titled ‘Rebuilding from Ashes: Resilience and Realities,’ Fies
presents his perspective on the role of personal storytelling in
addressing climate change and resilience. Put together, Fies reflects
on the potential of comics to evoke empathy, raise awareness, and
enable meaningful dialogue on urgent issues such as wildfires,
climate resilience and natural disasters. In so doing, the present
interview contributes to the discussion on the intersection of
comics, personal narrative, and environmental crises, offering
a nuanced understanding of the role of graphic storytelling in
conveying the impact of natural disasters.
the face of our changing climate. Brian Fies’s A Fire Story is a graphic
narrative that sensitively presents the harrowing experiences of
losing his home to Northern California wildfires (2017). This article
offers insights from an email interview with Fies, examining the
distinctive narrative affordances of the comic medium. The interview is divided into two sections. Part one titled ‘Drawn from the
Ashes: Of Comics and Climate Change,’ Fies responds to questions
regarding the artistic choices (visual storytelling elements etc.) he
made to convey the emotional spectrum of the wildfire experience.
Part two, titled ‘Rebuilding from Ashes: Resilience and Realities,’ Fies
presents his perspective on the role of personal storytelling in
addressing climate change and resilience. Put together, Fies reflects
on the potential of comics to evoke empathy, raise awareness, and
enable meaningful dialogue on urgent issues such as wildfires,
climate resilience and natural disasters. In so doing, the present
interview contributes to the discussion on the intersection of
comics, personal narrative, and environmental crises, offering
a nuanced understanding of the role of graphic storytelling in
conveying the impact of natural disasters.
Through a scholarly examination of the artists’ use of visual-verbal codes of the comics medium in narrating their physical ordeals and affective challenges occasioned by infertility, the book seeks to foreground the intricacies of gender identity, embodiment, subjectivity, and illness experience. Providing long-overdue scholarly attention on the perspectives of autobiographical and comics studies, the authors examine the gendered nature of the infertility experience and the notion of motherhood as an ideological force which interpolates socio-cultural discourses, accentuating the potential of graphic medicine as a creative space for the infertile women to voice their hitherto silenced perspectives on childlessness with force and urgency.
This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students in comics studies, the health humanities, literature, and women’s and gender studies, and will also be suitable for readers in visual studies and narrative medicine.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life
Poe’s Literary Output
Poe and Transcendentalism
Poe’s Science Fictions
Detective Fictions and the Theory of Ratiocination
Poe and the Gothic Tradition
Poe and the Victorian Cult of Death
Poe’s Theory of Composition and Critical Praxis
Critical Reception of Poe’s Work
Tales
1. The Purloined Letter
2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
3. The Tell-Tale Heart
4. The Cask of Amontillado
5. The Fall of the House of Usher
6. The Black Cat
7. The Masque of the Red Death
8. The Pit and the Pendulum
9. The Imp of the Perverse
10. The Oval Portrait
11. A Descent into the Maelstrom
Critical Writings
1. Letter to Mr. B—
2. Twice-Told Tales: A Review
3. The Philosophy of Composition
4. The Poetic Principle
Notes and Annotations
Critical Essays
Pregnant Women and Envious Men in “Morella,” “Berenice,” “Ligeia,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Dawn Keetley
The Permanence of Poe
James M. Hutchisson
Selected Bibliograph
Although PLWH/PLWAs irrespective of race confront these brutal realities, the intersection of a mythologized black sexuality, homophobia and intra-community marginalization places African American PLWH/PLWAs in an unenviable position. While abjection and social death rupture the social self of PLWH/PLWAs, the ostracization they suffer as a result of their diagnosis affects their sexual self, leading to sexual death. In addition to illustrating the social and sexual issues of PLWH/PLWAs in relation to race, sexuality and gender, the African American HIV/AIDS literary narratives studied here also foreground various coping strategies conscripted by PLWH/PLWAs to surmount the onerous psychosocial and sexual challenges they face.
In view of the above concerns, this study analyses social death, sexual death and coping in relation to HIV/AIDS at three levels, namely the intersection of blackness, sexuality and HIV/AIDS; the impact of such an intersection on the sexual life of black PLWH/PLWAs; and, finally, the envisioned coping strategies for affirmative survival. This book offers insightful critical analysis of HIV/AIDS literary narratives by celebrated authors such as Samuel R. Delany, Cheryl L. West, Essex Hemphill, Michael B. Hunter, Steven Corbin, Charlotte Watson Sherman, Sapphire, Pearl Cleage, Sheneshka Jackson, Gil R. Robertson, and Marvelyn Brown.