Abstract:

In recent years, scholars have been interested in the representation of health and disease in Latin American literary texts. Although sickness is a phenomenon that takes place in the present and affects a particular body, patients look back to their past in order to confer purposeful meaning to their suffering. Similarly, when a particularly deathly disease disturbs a community, the collective memory can work as a means to understand the current situation and to lighten the struggles of the present, as it is depicted in Inmunología poética (2010) by Moisés Agosto-Rosario (Puerto Rico, 1965). In this paper, I explore how Agosto-Rosario's book challenges a common framework that understands the HIV/AIDS epidemic through a closed linear narrative that hides the epidemic's onset because it is full of images of gay transgressive sexuality. Instead, the poetic speaker represents a queer poetics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic by relying on gay memory and Latino cultural perspectives. In the poems that I analyze, memory, community, and love work together to resist the hegemonic view of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that highlights containment, oblivion, and death.

摘要：

近年来，学者对拉美文学作品中健康与疾病的表现感兴趣。尽管疾病是当前发生并影响特定身体的一种现象，但患者回想过去以赋予他们的痛苦有目的的意义。同样，当一种特别致命的疾病困扰社区时，集体记忆可以作为了解当前局势和减轻当前斗争的一种手段，如《免疫学》（Inmunologíapoética）中所述（2010年），作者是MoisésAgosto-Rosario（波多黎各，1965年）。在本文中，我探讨了阿戈斯托·罗萨里奥（Agosto-Rosario）的书如何通过一个封闭的线性叙述来挑战了解艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行的通用框架，该叙述隐藏了该流行病的发作，因为它充满了同性恋的侵犯性形象。取而代之的是，这位有诗意的演讲者依靠同性恋的记忆和拉丁裔的文化观点，代表了有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行的古怪诗意。在我分析的诗歌中，记忆，社区和爱情共同作用，抵制了对艾滋病病毒/艾滋病流行的霸权主义观点，这种观点突出了遏制，遗忘和死亡。