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Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Leigh Ross Chambers
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Description for Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Paperback. Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 30. Weight in Grams: 250.
For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing It examines the genre not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. Through a detailed study of three such diaries, originating respectively in France, the United States, and Australia, Ross Chambers demonstrates that issues concerning the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading ... Read more
For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing It examines the genre not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. Through a detailed study of three such diaries, originating respectively in France, the United States, and Australia, Ross Chambers demonstrates that issues concerning the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472087488
SKU
V9780472087488
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About Leigh Ross Chambers
Ross Chambers is Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, and author of Room for Maneuver: Reading (the) Oppositional (in) Narrative and Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction.
Reviews for Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
. . . provides us with a poignant analysis of AIDS autobiography in the first decade of the epidemic, one that honors the subjectivity and politics of AIDS autobiographers while avoiding victimizing those who suffer from AIDS. . . . It is literary criticism at its best. To cast the reading of AIDS diaries in a framework of mourning, as ... Read more