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Offers an international perspective on how HIV and AIDS has affected twenty-first century performance
Brings together a variety of voices to provide an astonishing range of contexts and perspectives
Shows how performance can respond and intervene in a public and political health crisis
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Women’s Voices and Experiences
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Generations, Memories and Temporalities
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Inter/national Narratives
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Artistic and Personal Reflections and Interventions
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About this book
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.
This collection presents work from a vast range of contexts, grouped around four main areas: women’s voices and experiences; generations, memories and temporalities; inter/national narratives; and artistic and personal reflections and interventions.
Reviews
“Viral Dramaturgies offers vital discussion of performance and the global epidemic of HIV infections. Emphasizing research interventions in current and often-neglected subfields, this collection showcases new perspectives on issues such as women’s experiences, criminalization and stigmatization, and historiography within and across national boundaries. The volume expresses new relationships among content (AIDS discourse) and form (networks produced through empirical and discursive HIV interventions). It opens necessary transnational conversations through collaboratively authored works and a variety of scholarly formats to think about how HIV, AIDS, and performance continue to matter.” (Sean Metzger, President of Performance Studies international, and Associate Professor, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, USA)
“This important new book reminds us that conversations around HIV and AIDS are far from over. The editors have assembled voices from around the world, to highlight the crucial role theatre, performance and artistic practices play in producing new knowledge and feeling, while foregrounding the impact of cultural diversity and economic disparity on treatment and understanding. The book will be essential reading for those interested in the cultural politics of HIV and AIDS, performance and health and socially engaged theatre.” (Fintan Walsh, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
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VCA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Alyson Campbell
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Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Dirk Gindt
About the editors
Alyson Campbell is Associate Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, and is a theatre director and dramaturg.
Dirk Gindt is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden, and has a PhD in Theatre Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Viral Dramaturgies
Book Subtitle: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Alyson Campbell, Dirk Gindt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70317-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70316-9Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09945-9Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70317-6Published: 20 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 417
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies