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The Calendar of Loss : Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Callaloo African Diaspora SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421416564
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Calendar of LossDDC classification:
  • 809/.933548
LOC classification:
  • P96.A39 W68 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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