1st Edition

HIV in World Cultures Three Decades of Representations

By Gustavo Subero Copyright 2013
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

HIV in World Cultures

Biography

Gustavo Subero is a Researcher in Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies in the UK, and author of Queer Masculinity in Latin American Cinema: Male Bodies and Representations.

’Appropriately global in its scope and diverse in its approaches, HIV in World Cultures is a much-needed reminder that as long as the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to rage and kill across the planet, the question of representation remains an urgent one for scholars and artists to address.’ David Caron, The University of Michigan, USA