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Woubshet, Dagmawi (Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania)

The Calendar of Loss

Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

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His world view colored by growing up in 1980s Ethiopia, where death governed time and temperament, Dagmawi Woubshet offers a startlingly fresh interpretation of melancholy and mourning during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in The Calendar of Loss.When society denies a patient¿s disease and then forbids survivors mourning rites, how does a child bear witness to a parent¿s death or a lover grieve for his beloved? Looking at a range of high and popular works of grief - including elegies, eulogies, epistles to the dead, funerals, and obituaries - Woubshet identifies a unique expression of mourning that emerged in the 1980s and early 1990s i… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4214-1655-7
  • EAN: 9781421416557
  • Produktnummer: 17193021
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H23.8 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 382 g
  • Abbildungen: 19 Halftones, black and white
  • Gewicht: 382
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English at Cornell University. The coeditor of Ethiopia: Literature, Art, and Culture, a special issue of Callaloo, Woubshet has also published his work in Transition, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, and African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies.

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