AIDS-Trauma and Politics
Subtitle: American Literature and the Search for a Witness
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781498568081
Subjects: Aids (disease) in literature; American literature, history and criticism, 20th century
Description: "This book revisits representations of AIDS in the 1980s in the U.S. in order to highlight a discourse of trauma and witness that emerged in the wake of a crisis. The book also emphasizes the potential of literary language to call attention to historical trauma where other discourses may fail"--