AIDS-trauma and politics : American literature and the search for a witness / Aimee Pozorski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pozorski, Aimee L. (Aimee Lynn), author.

Series:

Politics, literature, & film

Politics, literature, and film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

AIDS (Disease) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 163 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"This book revisits representations of AIDS in the 1980s in the U.S. in order to highlight a discourse of trauma and witness that emerged in the wake of a crisis. The book also emphasizes the potential of literary language to call attention to historical trauma where other discourses may fail"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Empathic Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Love

The Poetics of AIDS: Theory, Angels, and (Anti) Reparation

Metaphor, Militancy, and AIDS in Susan Sontag and Paul Monette

Memorializing AIDS through Metaphor: The Journalistic Memoirs of Paul Monette and Mark Doty

Tony Kushner's Progressive Ethics: Angels in America on Stage and Screen

Accounting for: Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart and the Healing Power of the AIDS Quilt

American High: AIDS Fiction, Drug Use, and NYC Activism

Unspeakable Things: Poetic Ethics and Silence in Contemporary American Short Stories

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pozorski, Aimee, 1973- Aids-trauma and politics

ISBN:

9781498568081

1498568084

OCLC:

1091372945