Book description
Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression.The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent associations have been made between the AIDS pandemic and African diasporic cultural practices, including religious worship, music, dance, sculpture, painting, orature, literature and film. While pointing to the lengthy and complex history of the metaphor of African contagion, Browning argues that in its politicized, life-affirming embodiment, the figure might actually teach us to respond to epidemia humanely.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION: “Haiti Is Here/ Haiti Is Not Here”
- ONE: Babaluaiyé: Diaspora As Pandemic
- TWO: Compact World
- THREE: Lutte contre les moustiques: The Question of Irony
- FOUR: African Medicine Men
- FIVE: Voodoo Economics
- SIX: Mixing Bloods: The L.A. Riots
- SEVEN: Cyberspace, Voodoo Sex, and Retroviral Identity
- EIGHT: Benetton: Blood Is Big Business
- NINE: Penetrable Selves (“Paris Is Burning”)
- TEN: The Closed Body
- Notes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Infectious Rhythm
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136051906
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