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Untimely interventions: AIDS writing, testimonial, and the rhetoric of haunting.

2004 the University of Michigan ;Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004. ;ISBN: 0472024396 ;ISBN: 9780472024391 ;ISBN: 9780472098712 ;ISBN: 0472098713 ;ISBN: 0472068717 ;ISBN: 9780472068715 ;EISBN: 0472024396 ;EISBN: 9780472024391 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11461 ;OCLC: 743199689 ;LCCallNum: RA643.8

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  • Title:
    Untimely interventions: AIDS writing, testimonial, and the rhetoric of haunting.
  • Author: Chambers, Ross
  • Subjects: AIDS (Disease) ; AIDS (Disease) in literature ; AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects ; English Literature ; HIV / AIDS ; Language & Literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Popular Culture ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Twentieth Century
  • Description: As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted by its own history. Ross Chambers argues that culture produces itself as civilized by denying the forms of collective violence and other traumatic experience that it cannot control. In the context of such denial, personal accounts of collective disaster can function as a form of counter-denial. By investigating a range of writing on AIDS, the First World War, and the Holocaust, Chambers shows how such writing produces a rhetorical effect of haunting, as it seeks to describe the reality of those experiences culture renders unspeakable. Ross Chambers is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan. His other books includeFacing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 456
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0472024396
    ISBN: 9780472024391
    ISBN: 9780472098712
    ISBN: 0472098713
    ISBN: 0472068717
    ISBN: 9780472068715
    EISBN: 0472024396
    EISBN: 9780472024391
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11461
    OCLC: 743199689
    LCCallNum: RA643.8
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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