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Explorations in the
Cultural History of AIDS
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AIDS, Alterity
and Images of Suffering: Moments in the Discursive History of a Crisis in
India
Kavita Misra
Center for
Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Yale
University
The material landscape of urban
India is among the many sites where one might look for the appearance of
images and texts for public consumption. The sides of buses, billboards,
the whitewashed walls running along bridges and sewers, are spaces that
boldly declare transition. In the years particularly after 1992, this
aspect of urban landscape became gradually and noticeably occupied by
messages from the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), the
government established and run institutional body responsible for the
control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India, and later from state level AIDS
control bodies. The print media had, since the late eighties and early
nineties, run stories on the AIDS epidemic in the global context as well
as the national scenario. Radio and television networks began to air
different kinds of programming, public interest commercials, messages from
celebrities, documentaries and talk shows on AIDS. As AIDS became a
culturally significant phenomenon, people attempted to make sense of it,
to use the emotional and intellectual resources that they had available,
to grasp the implications of what the state, the non-governmental and the
private sectors were asserting, but what was still experientially distant
to many, to all those who had not encountered the illness in its physical
reality.
The narrative progression of the
AIDS epidemic in the media and in other forms of public discourse has been
punctuated by silence and denial. Further, it has been marked by
discursive and representational strategies that concern themselves with
delineating the boundaries of an Indian self. AIDS, like other threats to
national health and wellbeing signifies a crisis of identification,
drawing on deep-rooted moral anxieties around the loss of culture and the
disappearance of the cultural self. This paper concerns itself with
moments in a particular history of the AIDS epidemic in India – that
history which is constructed through its life and circulation in the
public imagination by way of media and images. The significance of such a
history of representational forms is not limited to questions of knowing
and to the construction of identity and the self. Its history also
parallels that of practices of the state and of communities and thus has
ramifications for the very experience of illness as well as consequences
for the manner in which AIDS moves in and affects the body population. It
must be noted that the discursive progression of AIDS in India is not
dissimilar from the trajectory of representation in other locations. In
fact, conceptions and experiences of alterity and moral marginality
circulate globally while taking on particular local historical and
cultural forms.
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