Witnessing AIDS : : Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning / / Sarah Brophy.
Witnessing AIDS addresses testimonial literature produced in response to the AIDS pandemic, focusing on texts by four individuals: filmmaker, painter, activist, and writer Derek Jarman; writer Jamaica Kincaid; anthropologist and media theorist Eric Michaels; and journalist Amy Hoffman. Sarah Brophy...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Spaces
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: AIDS Testimonial Writing and Unresolved Grief
- 1. Flowers, Boys, and Childhood Memories: Derek Jarman's Pedagogy
- 2. Queering the Kaddish: Amy Hoffman's Hospital Time and the Practice of Critical Memory
- 3. Resisting Redemption: Strategies of Defamiliarization in Eric Michaels's Unbecoming
- 4. Angels in Antigua: The Diasporic of Melancholy in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother
- Conclusion: Melancholic Reparations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Illustration Credits
- Index