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The Political Embodiment of AIDS: Between Individual and Social Bodies in Colm Tóibín’s The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship

Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: After the recognition gained with his previous novels (The South and The Heather Blazing ), the writer Colm Tóibín explored what then (in the mid-1990s) was a growing trend in Irish narrative: a re-configuration of the Irish traditional family and its religious values in confrontation with (homo)sexuality. In fact, Tóibín came out as a
Institution: New York University
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2607336069
FWCI: 3.764
Cites: 7
Cited by: 3
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