Speaking in stitch: the Keiskamma Altarpiece as testimony to women’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa

Q1 Social Sciences
Annette Wentworth
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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.
针线画:凯斯卡玛祭坛作为南非妇女经历艾滋病毒/艾滋病大流行病的见证
南非的黑人妇女每天都面临着多重的、环环相扣的压迫制度;其中包括基于性别的暴力、经济边缘化,以及几个世纪以来的殖民统治和随后的种族隔离制度所遗留下来的种族化和性别化的奴役。在南非1994年向民主过渡之后,艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病迅速使保健和社会支助系统不堪重负,造成至今世界上艾滋病发病率最高的国家。本文涉及一件名为Keiskamma Altarpiece的纪念性艺术品,它是由南非东开普省农村地区的一群(主要是)妇女创作的。我“阅读”祭坛画,将其视为对南非女性生活和经历的羞辱和沉默的见证和叙述,并认为它呼吁我们对其目击者做出回应。通过对后殖民记忆研究的论述和美学分析,我主张更好的记忆实践,提高对疾病遗留问题的认识,并与罗杰·西蒙(Roger Simon)的记忆概念相结合。
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Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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