Research Catalog

Title

Witnessing AIDS : writing, testimony, and the work of mourning / Sarah Brophy.

Author

Brophy, Sarah.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Description

x, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Witnessing AIDS demonstrates the extent to which memoirs and diaries intervene in the creation of cultural memory. Brophy's aim is to develop a framework for reading, one that begins to grasp the significance of our unresolved grief in response to AIDS and its effect upon testimonial writing. By highlighting our profound investment in the mundane intimacies of illness, death, and grief, Brophy resituates a number of critical debates surrounding autobiography, trauma, and memory at new and provocative intersections."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Cultural spaces

Uniform Title

Cultural spaces.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) in literature
• Gay men in literature
• Grief in literature
• Hoffman, Amy
• Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994
• Kincaid, Jamaica
• Michaels, Eric

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0802087736 (bound) :
• 0802085679 (pbk.) :

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries