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AIDS-Trauma and Politics: American Literature and the Search for a Witness

AIDS-Trauma and Politics: American Literature and the Search for a Witness

Pozorski, Aimee

Hardcover

Series: Politics, Literature, & Film

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1498568084
ISBN13: 9781498568081
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 26 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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