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…
Author: Barbara Browning · Original publisher: Routledge, 1998 (hardcover ISBN 978-0-415-91980-7)
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