Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century
Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century by Alyson Campbell
English | 1 Apr. 2018 | ISBN: 3319703161 | 440 Pages | PDF (True) | 7.56 MB
English | 1 Apr. 2018 | ISBN: 3319703161 | 440 Pages | PDF (True) | 7.56 MB
This book analyses the impact of HIV and AIDS on performance in the twenty-first century from an international perspective. It marks a necessary reaffirmation of the productive power of performance to respond to a public and political health crisis and act as a mode of resistance to cultural amnesia, discrimination and stigmatisation. It sets out a number of challenges and contexts for HIV and AIDS performance in the twenty-first century, including: the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry; the unequal access to treatment and prevention technologies in the Global North and Global South; the problematic division between dominant (white, gay, urban, cis-male) and marginalised narratives of HIV; the tension between a damaging cultural amnesia and a potentially equally damaging partner ‘AIDS nostalgia’; the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure; and, sustaining and sustained by all of these, the ongoing stigmatisation of people living with HIV.