“This Long Disease, My Life": Bodies of Contagion in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me

Haas, Astrid orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-8628-8129 (2021) “This Long Disease, My Life": Bodies of Contagion in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me. In: Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, pp. 199-217. ISBN 978-1-78683-690-8

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Abstract

The chapter focuses on issues around gay sexuality and AIDS activism, as portrayed specifically through late twentieth-century drama. It thereby shows the limits of the dramas’ strategy to change societal discourses by reflecting on the discriminatory merging of gay men (with supposedly deformed identities) and IV drug addicts to a contagious, monstrous outsider group threatening the nation at the height of the AIDS epidemic.


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