TY - BOOK ID - 78492663 TI - Aids in cultural bodies. PY - 2016 SN - 1443891975 9781443891974 1443889156 9781443889155 PB - [Place of publication not identified] Cambridge Scholars Publis DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - AIDS (Disease) in literature. KW - African American literature (English) KW - Black literature (American) KW - Negro literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - African American authors. KW - Afro-American authors KW - Negro authors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78492663 AB - This book examines the various psychosocial and sexual ordeals of African American people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWH/PLWAs) as depicted in African American literary narratives dealing with HIV/AIDS published from 1980 to 2010. Central to these texts are the psychosocial and sexual challenges faced by the African American PLWH/PLWAs and the various adaptive strategies they choose to come to terms with their HIV/AIDS identity.Although PLWH/PLWAs irrespective of race confront these brutal realities, the intersection of a mythologized black sexuality, homophobia and intra-community marginalizat ER -