Derek Jarman’s medieval blood: Queer devotion, affective medicine, and the AIDS Crisis
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Abstract In this article I consider medieval blood imagery in the paintings, films and journals of Derek Jarman, focusing on works made between 1989–1993. Taking a transhistorical comparative approach, analyse Jarman's images alongside his sources, primarily Julian Norwich's Revelations Gerard Cremona's translation Ibn Sīnā's (Avicenna's) al-Qa'n ū n fī al-tibb (Canon Medicine). addition, find my own commonalities Jarman medieval, for example, juxtaposing Queer series paintings with MS Egerton 1821. Critics have explored as site historical precedent stigmatisation disease, providing reservoir leprosy plague which inform discourse AIDS immoral pollution. However follow lead seeking new avenues through relation to crisis. Refusing accept discourses cast HIV+ ultimate symbol pollution death, mobilised aesthetics affective devotion powerful alternative. Through deployment these traditions, becomes holy blood, source salvation, desire, community healing.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2040-5960', '2040-5979']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-022-00260-0