Untimely interventions : AIDS writing, testimonial, and the rhetoric of haunting / Ross Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Ross.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted by its own history. Ross Chambers argues that culture produces itself as civilized by denying the forms of collective violence and other traumatic experience that it cannot control. In the context of such denial, personal accounts of collective disaster can function as a form of counter-denial. By investigating a range of writing on AIDS, the First World War, and the Holocaust, Chambers shows how such writing produces a rhetorical effect of haunting, as it seeks to describe the reality of those experiences culture renders unspeakable. Ross Chambers is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan. His other books includeFacing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Death at the Door

Part I. Discourses of Extremity

2. On Being Im-pertinent: The Ethics and Etiquette of Solecism

3. Stuttering Rifles, Stammering Poetry: Reporting from the Front

4. Twisting a Trope: Reading and Writing Extremity

Part II. Phantom Pain

5. Orphaned Memories, Phantom Pain: Toward a Hauntology of Discourse

6. Suspended Sentences: Aftermath Writing and the Dual Autobiography

7. Farewell Symphonies: AIDS Writing as Community Auto/Biography

8. Hospitals, Families, Classrooms: Teaching the Untimely

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-396) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-46305-5

9786612463051

0-472-02439-6

OCLC:

609955012