Pandemic Genres - Neville Wallace Hoad

Pandemic Genres

Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS
Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40253-9 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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As HIV/AIDS emerged as a public health crisis of significant proportions across sub-Saharan Africa, it became the subject of local and international interest that was at once prurient, benevolent, and interventionist. Meanwhile, the experience of Africans living with HIV/AIDS became an object of aesthetic representation in multiple genres produced by Africans themselves. These cultural representations engaged public discourse—the public policy pronouncements of officials of postcolonial states, an emerging global NGO-speak, and journalism. In Pandemic Genres, Neville Hoad investigates how cultural production—novels, poems, films—around the pandemic supplemented 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, particularly on the terrain of feeling, may forecast possibilities for new figurations.
 

Neville Hoad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and codirector of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the UT School of Law. He is author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization.  

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.2.2025
Zusatzinfo 8 b-w
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-40253-7 / 0520402537
ISBN-13 978-0-520-40253-9 / 9780520402539
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