Abstract

ROJAS GONZALEZ, José Pablo. Review of the Book Tras los rastros de un corpus seropositivo: VIH y sida en la poesída costarricense (1983-2017), by Ronald Campos López (2022). Káñina [online]. 2023, vol.47, n.1, pp.115-122. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v47i1.54818.

This paper reviews the book Tras los rastros de un corpus seropositivo: VIH y sida en la poesída costarricense (1983-2017), by Ronald Campos López (2022). First, its importance for the studies on Costa Rican HIV-positive literature is exposed; in addition, the relevance of its theme - ''forgotten” in the literary academic field- and of the theoretical contributions that support the analysis of Campos López are pointed out. Then, a synthesis of some chapters of the book is offered, where the approaches to the different poems selected by the author are commented. Finally, it is concluded that the book offers a lot of material for an academic, but also for a political reflection, since the study of HIV-positive literature also implies the analysis of the different kinds of knowledge that has built the ''disease”.

Keywords : HIV; AIDS; Costa Rican poetry; seropositive literature.

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