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Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture
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by Barbara Browning
Sales Rank: 590604
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Cover Type: Paperback with 234 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition March 26, 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0415919819
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415919814
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Product Review
Infectious Rhythm fills an important gap in the literature on AIDS and international race relations. In a style as lyrical as it is tough-minded, Browning offers a brilliant reading of figures of transmission, both viral and cultural. This eloquent book provides the most powerful testimony yet to how metaphors of seepage and contamination are, from the outset, expresssions of social fear and political anxiety.
–Diana Fuss
Browning is a clear writer and a creative thinker who eschews postmodern jargon to a large degree, even while elaborarting on concepts at the movement's core..
–Journal of Cultural Geography, Steven C. Dinero, Philadelphia College
Product 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.
HIV emerged as a pathogen simultaneously with increased Western anxieties over the risks of other forms of "contagion": accelerated economic, cultural and migrational flows around the globe. And while it may seem clear that one pandemic is painfully literal, the others figurative, they were quickly associated with one another. In fact, economic exploitation, cultural exchange, and disease are interrelated--but Africanness is hardly the deadly pathogen.
Artists in the diaspora often recuperate the notion of African "infection" by suggesting that diasporic culture is contagious, irresistible--but vital, life-giving and productive. 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.
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