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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
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Cante, Richard C. "Narration by Numbers: Gay Male AIDS and the Form of Contemporary American Culture," School of Cinema-Television Program in Critical Studies, University of Southern California, January 1999.
This study investigates the historical and (micro-)cultural contingencies which subtend the articulation, interpretation, and experience of an ongoing international event: the AIDS epidemic. By analyzing a wide range of texts and reception practices from various media—from popular joke cycles to narrative literature to International Cinema to gay bars and ethnographic diaries—, I show how and why HIV has been manufactured, via various mechanisms of post-Vietnam popular (and academic) discursive production in America, as a sine qua non of the contemporary cultural artifact: or as precisely the sort of discursive object which radically problematizes relevant US notions of both “objecthood” and “discursivity.” Thus, the most basic methodological aspiration of this research is the reconceptualization of one of cultural studies’ most expansive but elusive concepts: “textuality” itself.
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