Witnessing AIDS : writing, testimony and the work of mourning / Sarah Brophy.

By:

Brophy, Sarah

Series: Cultural spaces | Cultural spacesPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.Description: x, 271 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0802085679
9780802085672
0802087736
9780802087737

Subject(s): DDC classification:

810.9/3561 22

LOC classification:

RC606.54 .W55 2004

Other classification:

cci1icc
HN 1101
MS 6280

Online resources:

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.

Summary: "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 writing. By highlighting our profound investment in the mundane intimacies of illness, death, and grief, Brophy resituates a number of critical debates surrounding autobiography, trauma, and memory at new and provocative intersections."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

"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 writing. By highlighting our profound investment in the mundane intimacies of illness, death, and grief, Brophy resituates a number of critical debates surrounding autobiography, trauma, and memory at new and provocative intersections."--Jacket.

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