Witnessing AIDS : Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning /

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"Witnessing AIDS demonstrates the extent to which memoirs and diaries intervene in the creation of cultural memory. Brophy's aim is to develop a framework for reading, one that begins to grasp the significance of our unresolved grief in response to AIDS and its effect upon testimonial writ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brophy, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jarman, Derek, > 1942-1994. > Modern nature.
Michaels, Eric. > Unbecoming.
Kincaid, Jamaica. > My brother.
Hoffman, Amy. > Hospital time.
Literatur
Bewältigung
Aids
Englisch
Grief in literature.
Gay men in literature.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Homosexuels masculins dans la litterature.
Chagrin dans la litterature.
Sida dans la litterature.
Englisch.
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 'Flowers, boys, and childhood memories': Derek Jarman's pedagogy
  • Queering the Kaddish: Amy Hoffman's Hospital Time and the practice of critical memory
  • Resisting redemption: strategies of defamliarization in Eric Michaels's Unbecoming
  • Angels in Antigua: the diasporic of melancholy in Jamaica Kinkaid's My Brother
  • Conclusion: Melancholic reparations.

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