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Witnessing AIDS : writing, testimony, and the work of mourning / Sarah Brophy.
LIBRA PN56.M4 B76 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brophy, Sarah.
- Series:
- Cultural spaces
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoffman, Amy. Hospital time.
- Hoffman, Amy.
- Kincaid, Jamaica. My brother.
- Kincaid, Jamaica.
- Michaels, Eric. Unbecoming.
- Michaels, Eric.
- Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994. Modern nature.
- Jarman, Derek.
- AIDS (Disease) in literature.
- Grief in literature.
- Gay men in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction: AIDS Testimonial Writing and Unresolved Grief 3
- 1 'Flowers, Boys, and Childhood Memories': Derek Jarman's Pedagogy 29
- 2 Queering the Kaddish: Amy Hoffman's Hospital Time and the Practice of Critical Memory 79
- 3 Resisting Redemption: Strategies of Defamiliarization in Eric Michaels's Unbecoming 121
- 4 Angels in Antigua: The Diasporic of Melancholy in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother 167
- Conclusion: Melancholic Reparations 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802087736
- 0802085679
- OCLC:
- 52799166
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