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Tables of Contents for Enemies Within
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: Five Minutes to Midnight---What Is a Postmodern Plague?
1
8
Counting Down---To Catastrophe or Cure?
9
27
Bomb Scares: Two Epidemic Eras
History Repeats Itself: The Cold War as Mirror to the AIDS Crisis
History Reproduces Itself: The Cold War as Blueprint for the AIDS Crisis
Talking Cures: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Location of Illness in Language
Exploding Cures: The Irradiated Metaphoric
Four Corners of a Crisis: Genres of Plague Texts
36
58
Before, Beyond, and Within: Where We Are in Our Plague Texts
Forward, Backward, and Over Again: Two Views of the Primal Scene
Boxed In by Our Fears: Four Plague Genres
Backward Glances: The Pre-epidemic
Inward Glances: The Pre-AIDS Autobiography
Steps Sideways: The Alterapocalyptic
Two Small, Deserted Islands: The Preapocalyptic and Extraepidemic
Deathbed Dictations: The Intraepidemic
Forward Lunges: The Postapocalyptic
Three Points of Sight: Gender in Plague Texts
94
68
Danger Zones and Other Postmodern Myths
Plague Texts and the Feminine
Presence and Absence in Nuclear Literature
Positivity and Negativity in AIDS Literature
Textual Triangles
Bombshells and Basket Cases: Gendered Bomb/Gendered Illness in Nuclear Texts
Tantrums and Time Bombs: Gendered Illness/Gendered Bomb in AIDS Texts
Two Takes on a SCare: Cinematic Plague Texts and Their Remakes
162
27
The Return as the Repressed: Plague Film Remakes
Incredible Shrinkage: Having the Phallus/Be(com)ing a Penis
Parasites with Submarines: Some Small, Sick, Scientific Spies
Panic in the Streets of San Francisco: Cross-Metaphoric Treatments of Plague Themes
Kids These Days: The Oedipal and Extra-Oedipal in Remake Relations
Not The Blobs but the Blobs
Conclusion: One Fine Day---Toward a Realization of the ``Eutemporal''
189
4
Notes
193
26
Works Cited
219
16
Index
235