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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.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

AIDS (Disease) in mass media.
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
AIDS (Disease) in art.
Loss (Psychology)
Elegiac poetry--History and criticism.
Bereavement--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.
Mourning customs--Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

The Callaloo African Diaspora series

ISBN:

1421416557
9781421416557

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890792679

LCCN:

2014027394

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)