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AIDS Panic in Japan, or How to Have a Sabbatical in an Epidemic

AIDS Panic in Japan, or How to Have a Sabbatical in an Epidemic 0 1994 by Duke University Press positions 2:3 Winter 1994 will give u p between us less than a thimble-full of blood. Of the next two weeks I will not remember much other than some cryptic phone calls to people I thought I might never call again, and a visit to my parents both to distract myself and to show them, just in case, “how he looked back then.” For two weeks that future summer I will wait to discover for certain what I am afraid that September X-ray augurs. For two weeks I will, in a familiar pattern, abandon my lover to face his own dread without me. But that is another story, and not this one. This essay is about acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Japan, and the panic that erupted over it there in 1986-87, the year of my sabbatical. But with each rewrite, I tell more about myself and my twenty-year involvement with Japan, the same twenty years in which I and my kind rose to the challenge of our desires and, now, to the body’s newer challenge. This essay is about how we find ourselves so unalike or similar at the most unexpected http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

AIDS Panic in Japan, or How to Have a Sabbatical in an Epidemic

Treat, John Whittier
positions asia critique , Volume 2 (3) – Dec 1, 1994
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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0 1994 by Duke University Press positions 2:3 Winter 1994 will give u p between us less than a thimble-full of blood. Of the next two weeks I will not remember much other than some cryptic phone calls to people I thought I might never call again, and a visit to my parents both to distract myself and to show them, just in case, “how he looked back then.” For two weeks that future summer I will wait to discover for certain what I am afraid that September X-ray augurs. For two weeks I will, in a familiar pattern, abandon my lover to face his own dread without me. But that is another story, and not this one. This essay is about acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Japan, and the panic that erupted over it there in 1986-87, the year of my sabbatical. But with each rewrite, I tell more about myself and my twenty-year involvement with Japan, the same twenty years in which I and my kind rose to the challenge of our desires and, now, to the body’s newer challenge. This essay is about how we find ourselves so unalike or similar at the most unexpected

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positions asia critique – Duke University Press

Published: Dec 1, 1994

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