Calendar of Loss
Subtitle: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781421416557
Subjects: Aids (disease) in literature; Aids (disease) in mass media; Loss (psychology); Elegiac poetry, history and criticism; Bereavement, psychological aspects
Description: "His world view colored by a youth spent in 1980s Ethiopia, where death governed time and temperament. Dagmawi Woubshet offers a startlingly fresh interpretation of melancholy and mourning during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in The Calendar of Loss"--Page [4] of cover.