HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture)

Castillo Villanueva, Alicia (EDT)/ Bollas, Angelos (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 164 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031597015

Full Description

This volume examines the role of culture in developing social, cultural and political discourses of HIV/AIDS from a contemporary viewpoint. In doing so, the memory of HIV/AIDS is a powerful tool to examine representations of the past and connect them with future debates. This reassessment of HIV/AIDS explores the most appropriate way to come to terms with a past that involved a negative, stigmatised and marginalised representation. Therefore, remembering plays a key role in generating collective memory, which allows for the exchange of mnemonic content between individual minds, creates discourses on memory and commemoration, and disseminates versions of the past that may affect the representation of HIV/AIDS in the future. Indeed, rewriting about the past also means assessing our responsibility towards the present and the potential of transmission to future generations, especially in times of pandemics.

Contents

1. Viral Echoes: Revisiting the Cultural Memory of HIV/AIDS - Alicia Castillo Villanueva & Angelos Bollas.- 2. Beyond the Spectacle: Rethinking Media Representations of HIV/AIDS and Social Suffering - Angelos Bollas.- 3. #BeMoreJill and the Limited Visibility of Female Carers in It's a Sin - Janey Umback.- 4. Incorrigibility and Becoming-Child: Portrayals of People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Works of Cuban Writer Miguel Angel Fraga - Mirta Suquet.- 5. Remembering 'Risky' Sex: Viral Hauntology and Post-Crisis Cruising Discourses - David O'Mullane.- 6. Embodied Topologies: Space and the Place of Memory among Women Living with HIV in South Africa - Elizabeth Mills.- 7. Mothering with HIV - Denise Proudfoot & Ellie Marley.