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The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
Dagmawi Woubshet
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Description for The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
Hardback. An innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice. Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
His world view colored by growing up 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. When society denies a patient's disease and then forbids survivors mourning rites, how does a child bear witness to a parent's death or a lover grieve for his beloved? Looking at a range of high and popular works of grief-including elegies, eulogies, epistles to the dead, funerals, and obituaries-Woubshet identifies a unique expression of mourning that emerged in the 1980s ... Read more
His world view colored by growing up 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. When society denies a patient's disease and then forbids survivors mourning rites, how does a child bear witness to a parent's death or a lover grieve for his beloved? Looking at a range of high and popular works of grief-including elegies, eulogies, epistles to the dead, funerals, and obituaries-Woubshet identifies a unique expression of mourning that emerged in the 1980s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Callaloo African Diaspora Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421416557
SKU
V9781421416557
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About Dagmawi Woubshet
Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English at Cornell University. The coeditor of Ethiopia: Literature, Art, and Culture, a special issue of Callaloo, Woubshet has also published his work in Transition, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, and African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies.
Reviews for The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
Early AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings ... Read more