Description: 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 narratives and representations have undergone since the advent of the 'discovery' of the disease in the 1980s.
Review Quotes: '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