Pandemic Genres
As HIV/AIDS emerged as a public health crisis across sub-Saharan Africa, it became the subject of international interest that was at once prurient, benevolent, and interventionist. Meanwhile, the experience of living with HIV/AIDS became an object of aesthetic representation in multiple genres produ...
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| description | As HIV/AIDS emerged as a public health crisis across sub-Saharan Africa, it became the subject of international interest that was at once prurient, benevolent, and interventionist. Meanwhile, the experience of living with HIV/AIDS became an object of aesthetic representation in multiple genres produced by Africans themselves. In Pandemic Genres, Neville Hoad investigates how cultural production—novels, poems, films—around the pandemic engaged public discourse. He shows that the long historical imaginaries of race, empire, and sex in Botswana, Kenya, and South Africa underwrote all attempts to bring the pandemic into public representation. Attention to genres that stage themselves as imaginary may forecast new possibilities. “Unique and genre-busting, Pandemic Genres takes as foundational the importance of colonialism to intimacy and health, cleverly traversing a vast terrain that spans mining, state biometrics, beauty contests, American AIDS interventions, and South African AIDS denialism.” — Mark Hunter, author of Race for Education “Shows us vividly that pandemics are not created in a vacuum but are anticipated and constructed in ways that solidify those uneven geographies of power that govern our world system. In times of pandemics, the consequences of this unevenness are laid bare.” — Kwame Edwin Otu, author of Amphibious Subjects “Unavoidably interdisciplinary and unapologetically intimate, these reflections move beyond HIV/AIDS to illuminate how to unravel the connection between genres and any pandemics.” — Naminata Diabate, author of Naked Agency “Eschewing a conventional survey of the literature of AIDS, Neville Hoad instead offers an original and deeply moving take on the poetics of documentary genres and the integral place of imagination and affect in political life.” — Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1521102025-07-21T15:44:47Z Pandemic Genres Hoad, Neville HIV/AIDS thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing As HIV/AIDS emerged as a public health crisis across sub-Saharan Africa, it became the subject of international interest that was at once prurient, benevolent, and interventionist. Meanwhile, the experience of living with HIV/AIDS became an object of aesthetic representation in multiple genres produced by Africans themselves. In Pandemic Genres, Neville Hoad investigates how cultural production—novels, poems, films—around the pandemic engaged public discourse. He shows that the long historical imaginaries of race, empire, and sex in Botswana, Kenya, and South Africa underwrote all attempts to bring the pandemic into public representation. Attention to genres that stage themselves as imaginary may forecast new possibilities. “Unique and genre-busting, Pandemic Genres takes as foundational the importance of colonialism to intimacy and health, cleverly traversing a vast terrain that spans mining, state biometrics, beauty contests, American AIDS interventions, and South African AIDS denialism.” — Mark Hunter, author of Race for Education “Shows us vividly that pandemics are not created in a vacuum but are anticipated and constructed in ways that solidify those uneven geographies of power that govern our world system. In times of pandemics, the consequences of this unevenness are laid bare.” — Kwame Edwin Otu, author of Amphibious Subjects “Unavoidably interdisciplinary and unapologetically intimate, these reflections move beyond HIV/AIDS to illuminate how to unravel the connection between genres and any pandemics.” — Naminata Diabate, author of Naked Agency “Eschewing a conventional survey of the literature of AIDS, Neville Hoad instead offers an original and deeply moving take on the poetics of documentary genres and the integral place of imagination and affect in political life.” — Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression 2025-02-17T06:33:25Z 2025-02-17T06:33:25Z 2025-02-10T13:56:23Z 2025 book ONIX_20250210_9780520402539_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98408 9780520402539 9780520402546 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152110 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98408/1/9780520402539.pdf University of California Press University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.219 10.1525/luminos.219 19856893-4bf2-4e3e-9137-c7692d64e4c1 9780520402539 9780520402546 University of California Press 266 Oakland open access |
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