Facing it : AIDS diaries and the death of the author / Ross Chambers.
"Facing It examines the genre of the AIDS diary, not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. In this case, the interaction is between authors, whose subject is their own dying and death, and readers, for whom the act of reading becomes a form of mourning....
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[1998]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Facing It examines the genre of the AIDS diary, not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. In this case, the interaction is between authors, whose subject is their own dying and death, and readers, for whom the act of reading becomes a form of mourning. Writing and reading are separated but also joined by the unthinkable, unsayable, unreadable event of death. That is, between them they enact a scenario of survival."--BOOK JACKET. "Through a detailed study of three AIDS diaries, originating in France, the United States, and Australia, Ross Chambers demonstrates that issues concerning the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading are linked by a common concern with the problematics of survivorhood."--BOOK JACKET. "Finally, Facing It takes on the issue of its own relevance, asking what literary criticism can do in an epidemic."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 145 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) |