The calendar of loss : race, sexuality, and mourning in the early era of AIDS /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Woubshet, Dagmawi (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Series:	Callaloo African diaspora series.
Subjects:	AIDS (Disease) in mass media. AIDS (Disease) in literature. AIDS (Disease) in art. Loss (Psychology) Elegiac poetry > History and criticism. Bereavement > Psychological aspects > Cross-cultural studies. Mourning customs > Africa.

Table of Contents:

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.