The Calendar of Loss : Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS.
Woubshet, Dagmawi.
The Calendar of Loss : Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (189 pages) - The Callaloo African Diaspora Series . - The Callaloo African Diaspora Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking for the Dead: Disprized Mourners and the Work of Compounding Loss -- 1 Lyric Mourning: Sorrow Songs and AIDS Elegies -- 2 Archiving the Dead: AIDS Obituaries and Final Innings -- 3 Visions of Loss: Hip Hop, Apocalypse, and AIDS -- 4 Epistles to the Dead: AIDS Orphans and the Work of Mourning -- Conclusion: Tallying Loss -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
An innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice.
9781421416564
AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Loss (Psychology).
Elegiac poetry-History and criticism.
Bereavement-Psychological aspects-Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
P96.A39 W68 2015
809/.933548
The Calendar of Loss : Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (189 pages) - The Callaloo African Diaspora Series . - The Callaloo African Diaspora Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking for the Dead: Disprized Mourners and the Work of Compounding Loss -- 1 Lyric Mourning: Sorrow Songs and AIDS Elegies -- 2 Archiving the Dead: AIDS Obituaries and Final Innings -- 3 Visions of Loss: Hip Hop, Apocalypse, and AIDS -- 4 Epistles to the Dead: AIDS Orphans and the Work of Mourning -- Conclusion: Tallying Loss -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
An innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice.
9781421416564
AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Loss (Psychology).
Elegiac poetry-History and criticism.
Bereavement-Psychological aspects-Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
P96.A39 W68 2015
809/.933548