Untimely Interventions : Aids Writing, Testimonial, And The Rhetoric Of Haunting.

Untimely Interventions : Aids Writing, Testimonial, And The Rhetoric Of Haunting.

As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted by its own history. Ros...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2009.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
AIDS (Disease) in literature
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Death at the Door; Part I. Discourses of Extremity; 2. On Being Im-pertinent: The Ethics and Etiquette of Solecism; 3. Stuttering Rifles, Stammering Poetry: Reporting from the Front; 4. Twisting a Trope: Reading and Writing Extremity; Part II. Phantom Pain; 5. Orphaned Memories, Phantom Pain: Toward a Hauntology of Discourse; 6. Suspended Sentences: Aftermath Writing and the Dual Autobiography; 7. Farewell Symphonies: AIDS Writing as Community Auto/Biography; 8. Hospitals, Families, Classrooms: Teaching the Untimely; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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