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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pozorski, Aimee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

AIDS (Disease) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : 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:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-6809-2