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Impossible mourning - HIV / AIDS and visuality after Apartheid (Paperback)
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Impossible mourning - HIV / AIDS and visuality after Apartheid (Paperback)
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Impossible Mourning argues that while the HIV/AIDS epidemic has
occupied an important place in public discourse in South Africa
over the last ten years, particularly in debates about governance
and constitutional rights post-apartheid, the experiences of people
living with HIV for the most part remain invisible and the multiple
losses due to AIDS have gone publicly unmourned. This profound fact
is at the centre of this book which explores the significance of
the disavowal of AIDS-death in relation to violence, death, and
mourning under apartheid. Impossible Mourning shows how, in spite
of the magnitude of the epidemic, and as a result of the stigma and
discrimination that have largely characterized both national and
personal responses to the epidemic, spaces for the expression of
collective mourning have been few. This book engages with multiple
forms of visual representation that work variously to compound,
undo, and complicate the politics of loss. Drawing on work the
author did in art and narrative support groups while working with
people living with HIV/AIDS in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, this
book also includes analyses of the work of South African visual
artists and photographers Jane Alexander, Gille de Vlieg, Jillian
Edelstein, Pieter Hugo, Ezrom Legae, Gideon Mendel, Zanele Muholi,
Sam Nhlengethwa, Paul Stopforth, and Diane Victor.
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