The calendar of loss : race, sexuality, and mourning in the early era of AIDS /
Dagmawi Woubshet.
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 169 pages) : illustrations.
- The Callaloo African Diaspora series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781421416564
AIDS (Disease) in mass media. AIDS (Disease) in literature. Loss (Psychology) Elegiac poetry--History and criticism. Bereavement--Psychological aspects--Cross-cultural studies. AIDS (Disease) in literature. AIDS (Disease) in mass media. Bereavement--Psychological aspects--Cross-cultural studies. Elegiac poetry--History and criticism. Loss (Psychology)