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Author | : Aimee Pozorski |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2019-11-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498584470 |
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Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media. This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and East Asia.
Author | : Judith Laurence Pastore |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780252062940 |
Download Confronting AIDS Through Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers readers an array of literature and of viewpoints on the use of literature to confront AIDS as a social, literary, and medical phenomenon.
Author | : Ellen Grünkemeier |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847010709 |
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Examines the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through creative texts and the impact of these representations in determining which issues receive attention and how public understanding of the virus is shaped. South Africa is one of the countries in the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet, until recently, the epidemic was barely visible in South African literature. Much can be gained from approaching the South African epidemic through creative texts such as novels, photographs, films, cartoons and murals because they produce and circulate meanings of HIV/AIDS and its various facets such as its 'origin', 'transmission routes' and 'physical manifestations'. Other aspects explored are the denial of HIV/AIDS, its stigmatisation, discriminatory practices, modes of disclosure, access to anti-retroviral medication, as well as the role of alternative treatment. Creative texts, which are open to different and possibly contradictory readings, can serve as a starting point to increase the cultural visibility of the virus and to challenge dominant ideas about the epidemic. The cultural constructions of HIV/AIDS should be carefully examined because the meanings are pervasive and have very 'real' consequences: they play a powerful role both in determining which issues receive attention and in shaping public understanding of the virus. Ellen Grünkemeier is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department at Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her publications include two co-edited volumes on postcolonial literatures and cultures, Listening to Africa. Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures (2012), and Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines (ASNEL Papers 19, forthcoming).
Author | : Dr Gustavo Subero |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-12-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1472403843 |
Download HIV in World Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies of remembrance deployed by different (sub)cultural groups affected by the illness. Through a close study of a variety of cultural texts; including cinema, literature, theatre, art and photography amongst others, it demonstrates the trajectory that such narratives and representations have undergone since the advent of the ‘discovery’ of the disease in the 1980s. Acknowledging the central - yet often overlooked - role that cultural products have played in the construction of public opinion towards the condition itself and those who suffer it, this ground-breaking volume focuses on a variety of narratives, as well as strategies of coping with HIV/AIDS that have emerged across the globe. Bringing together research on the UK, North and South America, Africa and China, it provides rich textual analyses of the ways in which the HIV positive body has been portrayed in contemporary culture, with attention to the differences between specific national contexts, whilst keeping in view a space of commonality amongst the different experiences reflected in such texts. As such, it will be of interest to social scientists and scholars of cultural and media studies, concerned with cultural production and representations of the body and sickness.
Author | : Michael Chiappini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) in literature |
ISBN | : |
Download Beyond Memorialization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bridging rhetorical and literary studies, Beyond Memorialization: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature, examines how AIDS Crisis writers transform medical discourses and biological images into aesthetic objects for suasory purposes. Specifically, I examine a strain of texts that rhetorically operationalize the discourses and images of HIV/AIDS, often in perverse ways, through ekphrastic techniques of rhetorical presencing. These writers and artists use vivid descriptions, striking details, evocative figures, and arresting images to bring before the eyes the unseen realities and possibilities of HIV/AIDS. In the process, these ekphrastic images, which blur the distinction between description and narrative, destabilize and erode conventional conceptions of history and memory.
Author | : Dion Kagan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1838608982 |
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A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid '90s, however, the meaning of an HIV diagnosis radically changed. These game-changing drugs now enable many people living with HIV to lead a healthy, regular life, but how has this dramatic shift impacted the representation of gay men and HIV in popular culture? Positive Images is the first detailed examination of how the relationship between gay men and HIV has transformed in the past two decades. From Queer as Folk to Chemsex, The Line of Beauty to The Normal Heart, Dion Kagan examines literature, film, TV, documentaries and news coverage from across the English-speaking world to unearth the socio-cultural foundations underpinning this 'post-crisis' period. His analyses provide acute insights into the fraught legacies of the AIDS Crisis and its continued presence in the modern queer consciousness.
Author | : Gustavo Subero |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317121546 |
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This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies of remembrance deployed by different (sub)cultural groups affected by the illness. Through a close study of a variety of cultural texts; including cinema, literature, theatre, art and photography amongst others, it demonstrates the trajectory that such narratives and representations have undergone since the advent of the ’discovery’ of the disease in the 1980s. Acknowledging the central - yet often overlooked - role that cultural products have played in the construction of public opinion towards the condition itself and those who suffer it, this ground-breaking volume focuses on a variety of narratives, as well as strategies of coping with HIV/AIDS that have emerged across the globe. Bringing together research on the UK, North and South America, Africa and China, it provides rich textual analyses of the ways in which the HIV positive body has been portrayed in contemporary culture, with attention to the differences between specific national contexts, whilst keeping in view a space of commonality amongst the different experiences reflected in such texts. As such, it will be of interest to social scientists and scholars of cultural and media studies, concerned with cultural production and representations of the body and sickness.
Author | : Cathryne Cherop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : HIV (Viruses) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gustavo Subero |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317066006 |
Download Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS, re-interpreting the condition in the light of advances in treatment. With attention to both the temporality and spatiality of production, this book examines whether heterosexual and homosexual, and masculine and feminine bodies are narrativised in the same manner, considering the question of whether representations foster discrimination of any kind. The book also asks whether representations across Latin America are homogenous or varied according to national, social or cultural context, and explores the commonalities between the representations of HIV/AIDS in Hispano-America and the Caribbean and other global narratives. A detailed study of the various representations of HIV/AIDS and the construction of public opinion, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural, media and film studies, the sociology of health, the body and illness, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Author | : Alicia Castillo Villanueva |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031596994 |
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