Speaking in Stitch: The "Keiskamma Altarpiece" as Testimony to Women's Experience of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in South Africa

Autor/in	Wentworth, Annette
Titel	Speaking in Stitch: The "Keiskamma Altarpiece" as Testimony to Women's Experience of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in South Africa
Quelle	In: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 15 (2021) 4, S.276-285 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wentworth, Annette)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1559-5692
DOI	10.1080/15595692.2021.1944088
Schlagwörter	Females; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Pandemics; Foreign Countries; Story Telling; Memory; Blacks; Power Structure; Violence; Poverty; Racial Discrimination; Social Change; Democracy; Racial Segregation; Health Services; Social Services; Art; Disease Incidence; Rural Areas; Discourse Analysis; Aesthetics; Postcolonialism; Grief; Art Products; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Gedächtnis; Black person; Schwarzer; Gewalt; Armut; Racial bias; Rassismus; Sozialer Wandel; Demokratie; Rassentrennung; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Arts; Kunst; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Diskursanalyse; Ästhetik; Post colonialism; Postkolonialismus; Trauer; Künstlerische Produktion; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Black women in South Africa (SA) face multiple and interlocking systems of oppression every-day; among them gender-based violence, economic marginalization, and the legacy of racialized and gendered subjugation under centuries of colonization, followed by the apartheid regime. On the heels of South Africa's transition to democracy in 1994, the HIV/AIDS pandemic quickly overwhelmed health and social support systems, resulting in the highest AIDS incidence in the world, to this day. This article engages with a monumental artwork called the "Keiskamma Altarpiece," which was created by a group of (mainly) women in a rural area of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. I "read" the "Altarpiece" as testimony and storytelling against the shaming and silencing of women's lives and experiences in South Africa, and argue that it calls us to become response-able to its witness. Using discourse and esthetic analysis, informed by post-colonial memory studies, I argue for better memory practices and increased awareness of the legacies of disease, and engage with Roger Simon's concept of remembering otherwise. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01