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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460386303321

Autore

Woubshet Dagmawi

Titolo

The calendar of loss : race, sexuality, and mourning in the early era of AIDS / / by Dagmawi Woubshet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4214-1656-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

The Callaloo African Diaspora series

Disciplina

809/.933548

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) in mass media

AIDS (Disease) in literature

Loss (Psychology)

Elegiac poetry - History and criticism

Bereavement - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

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