Priscilla Wald: 2 books
Contagious
Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and...
Constituting Americans
Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1994
Ever since the founders drafted "We the People," "we" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth...