{"product_id":"witnessing-aids-sarah-brophy-9780802087737","title":"Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitnessing AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e addresses testimonial literature produced in response to the AIDS pandemic, focusing on texts by four individuals: filmmaker, painter, activist, and writer Derek Jarman; writer Jamaica Kincaid; anthropologist and media theorist Eric Michaels; and journalist Amy Hoffman. Sarah Brophy outlines the critical framework for interpreting the emphasis on unresolved grief in the emerging body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrophy challenges the tendency to treat AIDS testimonial literature as a genre particular to gay men. By examining Kincaid's and Hoffman's memoirs, in conjunction with the diaries of Michaels and Jarman, Brophy expands the territory of mourning beyond one group of people, an exercise that Brophy feels is important -- as well as fundamental -- to understanding the depth of personal grief and the ways we respond to grief in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a clear and accessible style, \u003ci\u003eWitnessing AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how memoirs and diaries are used as self-theorizing documents that approach personal testimony as an intervention in cultural memory. The aim of Brophy's work is to develop a framework for reading, one that begins to grasp the significance of unresolved grief in AIDS, its effect upon testimonial writing, and to engage rather than deflect. Visceral investment in the mundane intimacies of illness, death, and grief resituates a number of critical debates at new and provocative intersections as the strategy for understanding continues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Brophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802087736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802087737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.12w x 1.08d","brand":"Sarah Brophy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621789708543,"sku":"9780802087737","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/witnessing-aids-sarah-brophy-9780802087737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}