Fanon's no-man's land”
The difficult inheritance of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa's HIV/Aids literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12943145 |
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| Authors | Elliot Ross (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 36-45 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scrutiny2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1812-5441 • E-ISSN: 1753-5409 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/18125441.2013.828411 |
| OpenAlex | W2059023932 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Assessing the contribution made by recent literature dealing with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, this essay considers the influence of the tradition of anti-apartheid struggle on writers on both sides of the denialism controversy. A close reading of Roshila Nair's poem, “Fanon's land”, attends to her hesitation to apply straightforwardly the received forms and idioms of South African literary dissidence in dealing with HIV/AIDS as topic. Nair's unease sets her apart from many other writers who have written on the subject; readings are offered of texts aligned with the Treatment Action Campaign, and of Castro Hlongwane, South Africa's primary denialist document. On both sides, a recuperation of the liberationist rhetoric of popular anti-governmental antagonism is shown to impair – conceptually and aesthetically – attempts by writers to reckon with the HIV/AIDS crisis. Nair's conception of South Africa as “Fanon's no-man's land” is analysed, extrapolating a critique of the relation between viral and capital systems that is shown to lurk throughout the national literature on HIV/AIDS
Action (physics · Art · Capital (architecture · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Reading (process · Relation (database · Rhetoric · Sociology · Subject (documents · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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