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Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid

Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid

Thomas, Kylie

Hardcover

African HistoryAfrican ArtGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1611485347
ISBN13: 9781611485349
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Oct 24 2013
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.41
Language: English

Impossible Mourning argues that while the HIV/AIDS epidemic has figured largely 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 center 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 has largely characterized both national and personal responses to the epidemic, spaces for the expression of collective mourning have been few.

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