AIDS-trauma and politics American literature and the search for a witness

AIDS-trauma and politics American literature and the search for a witness

"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&q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pozorski, Aimee L. (Aimee Lynn)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:Politics, literature, & film.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American literature.
EBSCO eBooks
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of 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.

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