By Gustavo Subero,Dr Subero Gustavo
This booklet analyses the best way that HIV/AIDS is usually narrativised and represented in modern global cultures, in addition to different techniques of remembrance deployed through diverse (sub)cultural teams laid low with the affliction. via an in depth learn of numerous cultural texts; together with cinema, literature, theatre, artwork and images among others, it demonstrates the trajectory that such narratives and representations have passed through because the introduction of the ‘discovery’ of the ailment within the 1980s.
Acknowledging the primary - but usually neglected - function that cultural items have performed within the development of public opinion in the direction of the situation itself and those that endure it, this ground-breaking quantity specializes in various narratives, in addition to techniques of dealing with HIV/AIDS that experience emerged around the globe. Bringing jointly examine at the united kingdom, North and South the United States, Africa and China, it offers wealthy textual analyses of the ways that the HIV optimistic physique has been portrayed in modern tradition, with recognition to the variations among particular nationwide contexts, when holding in view an area of commonality among the various studies mirrored in such texts. As such, will probably be of curiosity to social scientists and students of cultural and media stories, occupied with cultural creation and representations of the physique and sickness.
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