Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (Cultural Spaces) - Softcover

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Sarah Brophy is an associate professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.


Sarah Brophy is an assistant professor of English at McMaster University.

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'Witnessing AIDS is motivated by a degree of critical rigour and empathy that I found effective and convincing. The argument is well-informed and researched. Brophy, in my view, makes a significant contribution to the study of AIDS memorialisation through her expert and attentive readings of individual texts to highlight the potential diversity of grief as a response to loss ... The alteration between the accounts of gay men with AIDS and those of women who bear witness to death from AIDS allows Brophy to diversify the reader's understanding of a complex topic while retaining a strong guiding thread. Her approach combines the virtues of close textual analysis with theory.'

'Brophy's readings of the four texts that constitute the respective foci of her chapters are illuminating, original, articulate, and frequently provocative. This is an important book written in the face of, perhaps even against, some of our most cherished commonplace assumptions about mourning, memory, and history ... Brophy has read widely and carefully in considerations of autobiography, trauma, and so-called AIDS literature, and she has been thoroughly attentive to the existing secondary literature on her selected writers in order to render the concept of melancholy more complex, more nuanced, more problematic, and more productive than the existing literature on melancholy might allow.'

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'Witnessing AIDS is motivated by a degree of critical rigour and empathy that I found effective and convincing. The argument is well-informed and researched. Brophy, in my view, makes a significant contribution to the study of AIDS memorialisation through her expert and attentive readings of individual texts to highlight the potential diversity of grief as a response to loss ... The alteration between the accounts of gay men with AIDS and those of women who bear witness to death from AIDS allows Brophy to diversify the reader's understanding of a complex topic while retaining a strong guiding thread. Her approach combines the virtues of close textual analysis with theory.'

'Brophy's readings of the four texts that constitute the respective foci of her chapters are illuminating, original, articulate, and frequently provocative. This is an important book written in the face of, perhaps even against, some of our most cherished commonplace assumptions about mourning, memory, and history ... Brophy has read widely and carefully in considerations of autobiography, trauma, and so-called AIDS literature, and she has been thoroughly attentive to the existing secondary literature on her selected writers in order to render the concept of melancholy more complex, more nuanced, more problematic, and more productive than the existing literature on melancholy might allow.'