AIDS-Trauma and Politics

American Literature and the Search for a Witness

AvAimee Pozorski,Lee Trepanier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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AIDS-Trauma and Politics considers American literary representations of the social and political silence surrounding the AIDS crisis in the U.S. in the 1980s. The book offers close readings of such authors as Paul Monette, Mark Doty, Rafael Campo, Sarah Schulman, Tony Kushner, and Larry Kramer in order to argue that the AIDS crisis was born largely without a witness and, as a result, marks a significant trauma in U.S. history. Grounded by trauma studies, AIDS-Trauma and Politics argues that the arts, exemplified here by literature and film, uniquely underscore social problems otherwise overlooked by such discourses as politics, the law, and journalism. Defining the 1980s AIDS crisis as a perfect case, this book proposes to redefine trauma not simply as an event that happened too soon, but rather as an ongoing series of oversights resulting in a failure to acknowledge or witness the humanity of those who suffer.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-26
Mått:159 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Politics, Literature, & Film
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498568081

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Aimee Pozorski is professor of English and director of English graduate studies at Central Connecticut State University

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In her insightful monograph, AIDS—Trauma and Politics, Aimee Pozorski looks forward, first by looking back at literary and cinematic representations in the early days of the epidemic, then by engaging with recent works. Like Hagar looking up in her distress to see the well, Pozorski finds qualified hope in the efforts of emerging voices to address the ongoing “epidemic of signification” that persists nearly 40 years into the HIV/AIDS era. This book is a must-read for those interested not only in the literature of HIV/AIDS, but in the resurgence of trauma theory alongside the emerging field of narrative medicine.

Innehållsförteckning

1.Empathic Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Love 2.The Poetics of AIDS: Theory, Angels, and (Anti) Reparation3.Metaphor, Militancy, and AIDS in Susan Sontag and Paul Monette4.Memorializing AIDS through Metaphor: The Journalistic Memoirs of Paul Monette and Mark Doty5.Tony Kushner’s Progressive Ethics: Angels in America on Stage and Screen6.Accounting for: Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and the Healing Power of the AIDS Quilt7.American High: AIDS Fiction, Drug Use, and NYC Activism 8.Unspeakable Things: Poetic Ethics and Silence in Contemporary American Short Stories