Intimacy, Memory and Revelation: HIV/AIDS Representations in Néstor Perlongher’s and Caio Fernando Abreu’s Epistolary Writing

Gustavo Vargas

doi:10.30827/rl.v0i26.16492

Authors

Gustavo Vargas University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i26.16492

Keywords:

HIV/AIDS, literature, disease, Néstor Perlongher, Caio fernando Abreu

Abstract

This article analyzes the epistolary works of writers Néstor Perlongher and Caio Fernando Abreu. Both authors share their experiences living with HIV/AIDS in their personal correspondence that has been recently published in different publishing houses in São Paulo and Buenos Aires (Agir and Santiago Arcos editor). This article reads through this affective archive that both authors left for posterity and suggests Perlongher and Abreu have a contrasting system of writing about the epidemic and what it represents for gay men in the region. Despite being authors that followed different paths to develop their literary interests, Perlongher and Abreu left for posterity an archive that provides a comprehensive understanding of the social, medical and political aspects of living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America.

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Author Biography

Gustavo Vargas, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Deparment of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Lecturer of Spanish

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