The Political Embodiment of AIDS: Between Individual and Social Bodies in Colm Tóibín’s The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship
By analyzing two novels The Story of the Night (1996) and The Blackwater Lightship (1999) by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín, this article proposes the concept of the sick body as an “organic allegory.” Although both novels are set in different places at different times (Argentina in the 1980s and Irel...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
2017-03-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Artículo-10-Severiche.pdf |