Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning

by Sarah Brophy and Sarah S. Brophy

Book Overview

Witnessing AIDS addresses testimonial literature produced in response to the AIDS pandemic, focusing on texts by four individuals: filmmaker, painter, activist, and writer Derek Jarman; writer Jamaica Kincaid; anthropologist and media theorist Eric Michaels; and journalist Amy Hoffman. Sarah Brophy outlines the critical framework for interpreting the emphasis on unresolved grief in the emerging body of work.

Brophy challenges the tendency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085679
• ISBN13: 9780802085672
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.9"