The Importance of Bearing Witness in Edwin Cameron’s Witness to AIDS (2005)

• Main Author: Ortega Montero, Oscar
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: memoir; whiteness; privilege; HIV/AIDS; South Africa
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss44/6; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1005/viewcontent/4_20KK_2044_20Oscar_20Ortega_20Montero.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Edwin Cameron’s memoir Witness to AIDS (2005) was the first HIV/AIDS memoir published in South Africa in the midst of the worst years of the epidemic. The narrative discloses essential facts about his experience living with the virus. In this paper, I argue that Edwin Cameron’s intellectually savvy...