Representations of HIV and AIDS

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What happened to the plague of HIV/AIDS that once seemed so threatening Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS into highly visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility. Griffin suggests that changes in the understanding of HIV/AIDS, the shift from dying of the disease to living with it in Western cultures, and a failure to grasp the full extent of the growth and impact of HIV/AIDS in a number of African and Asian countries has led to the death of the disease in the Western media.

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Gabriele Griffin is Professor of English at Kingston University.