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September 19, 2025Critique Studies in Contemporary FictionOpen Access

Spaces That Feel (Un)Intimate in Early AIDS Fictions: AIDS Realism, Literary Intimacy, and (De)Sexualized Space in Facing It: A Novel of AIDS and The Gifts of the Body

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HWHongtao Wu

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Overview

This analysis reveals how aids realism shapes intimacy in narratives, highlighting spatial experiences and queer sexuality.

Key Points

  • AIDS realism shapes the spatial experience of intimacy, impacting narrative form and representation.
  • Two tendencies emerge: one that clarifies intimacy, and another that introduces affective ambiguity.
  • Using Lauren Berlant's concept, the analysis compares two novels that redefine intimacy within medical and domestic spaces.
  • These narratives illustrate how intimacy alters meanings and experiences in the context of queer and gay identities.

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Hongtao Wu (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d466be31b076d99fa65b80https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2025.2562037
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