Kylie Thomas

Impossible Mourning

HIV/AIDS and Visuality After Apartheid

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Produktbeschreibung

Impossible Mourning focuses on disavowed loss and the difficulties of mourning in post-apartheid South Africa. The book transgresses disciplinary bounds to forge new ways of thinking and writing about the crisis of the epidemic and about the post-apartheid condition. It is the first book to focus on visual representation and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The book is written in an accessible way, combining theoretical insights with moving testimony about facing the enormity of loss in the time of AIDS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485349
• ISBN-10: 1611485347
• Artikelnr.: 39307443

Autorenporträt

Kylie Thomas teaches in the English Department at the University of Stellenbosch.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Dedication Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Language for Mourning One: Speaking Bodies Two: Passing and
the Politics of Queer Loss Post-apartheid Three: Traumatic Witnessing:
Photography and Disappearance Four: Mourning the Present Five: Disavowed
Loss during Apartheid and After in the Time of AIDS Six: Refusing
Transcendence: The Deaths of Biko and the Archives of Apartheid (Without)
Conclusion: "The Crisis is Not Over" Bibliography About the Author