AIDS-Trauma and Politics

AIDS-Trauma and Politics
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9781498568098
ISBN-13 : 1498568092
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Book Synopsis AIDS-Trauma and Politics by : Aimee Pozorski

Download or read book AIDS-Trauma and Politics written by Aimee Pozorski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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