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Author Woubshet, Dagmawi, author.

Title The calendar of loss : race, sexuality, and mourning in the early era of AIDS / Dagmawi Woubshet
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series The Callaloo African Diaspora series
Callaloo African diaspora series.
Contents Introduction : looking for the dead : disprized mourners and the work of compounding loss -- Lyric mourning : sorrow songs and AIDS elegies -- Archiving the dead : AIDS obituaries and final innings -- Visions of loss : hip hop, apocalypse, and AIDS -- Epistles to the dead : AIDS orphans and the work of mourning -- Conclusion : tallying loss
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Loss (Psychology)
Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
AIDS (Disease) in literature
AIDS (Disease) in mass media
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
Elegiac poetry
Loss (Psychology)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014027394
ISBN 9781421416564
1421416565
1421416565