Description: This book examines the cultural history of the early years of HIV/AIDS in Spain (1981-1987) as it has been told through television and print media, ephemeral products of visual culture, fiction film, and the so-called risk groups that lived through the epidemic.
Brief description: Dean Allbritton is Associate Professor of Spanish at Colby College.
Review Quotes:
"This book draws into the spotlight a history of the early years of AIDS in Spain, forgotten by scholars and in Spain itself; and places little known Spanish material consistently in the context of international scholarship on illness, narcotics, and queer issues. It is lucidly and elegantly, sometimes movingly, written, and convincingly argued."
Paul Julian Smith, Graduate Center, CUNY