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Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later
depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand
upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an
important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together
essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and
literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the
first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this
book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film
to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media.
This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful
response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the
changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The
book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified
by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the
United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and
East Asia.
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth's
retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature
and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014
would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This
collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way.
Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars
in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both
relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind
to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth's works and career; it
considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it
speculates on Roth's legacy-particularly the enduring quality of
his novels that will continue to resonate long after his
retirement.
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth's
retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature
and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014
would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This
collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way.
Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars
in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both
relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind
to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth's works and career; it
considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it
speculates on Roth's legacy-particularly the enduring quality of
his novels that will continue to resonate long after his
retirement.
Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later
depicts how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand
upon the issues generated by the epidemic. This collection fills an
important gap in the scholarship on HIV/AIDS, by bringing together
essays by both established and junior scholars on visual and
literary representations of HIV/AIDS. Almost forty years after the
first reported cases of what would later be defined as AIDS, this
book looks back across the decades at works of literature and film
to discuss how the representation of HIV/AIDS has shifted in media.
This book argues that literature constitutes a very powerful
response to AIDS that ripples into film and politics, driving the
changes in past and contemporary representations of HIV/AIDS. The
book also expands discussion of the issues generated and amplified
by the epidemic to consider how HIV/AIDS has been portrayed in the
United States, Western and Southern Africa, Western Europe, and
East Asia.
AIDS-Trauma and Politics considers American literary
representations of the social and political silence surrounding the
AIDS crisis in the U.S. in the 1980s. The book offers close
readings of such authors as Paul Monette, Mark Doty, Rafael Campo,
Sarah Schulman, Tony Kushner, and Larry Kramer in order to argue
that the AIDS crisis was born largely without a witness and, as a
result, marks a significant trauma in U.S. history. Grounded by
trauma studies, AIDS-Trauma and Politics argues that the arts,
exemplified here by literature and film, uniquely underscore social
problems otherwise overlooked by such discourses as politics, the
law, and journalism. Defining the 1980s AIDS crisis as a perfect
case, this book proposes to redefine trauma not simply as an event
that happened too soon, but rather as an ongoing series of
oversights resulting in a failure to acknowledge or witness the
humanity of those who suffer.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive,
must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the
major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The
Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art
scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future
directions in Philip Roth studies. It illuminates how Roth, one of
the most influential American writers of the 20th and 21st
centuries, not only reflected American history and culture in his
important novels but uncannily anticipated our American future.
Divided into six main sections, this Handbook considers such
topics: - The full range of Roth’s writing, from his novels and
short stories to essays and life writing - Major interdisciplinary
scholarly perspectives across literary studies, politics, gender
studies, critical race theory, and ecocriticism - Roth’s literary
legacy across contemporary fiction, Jewish literature, the arts,
and culture studies - Key contexts including American political
movements since the 1950s, the American Jewish experience, and
intertextual relationships Uniting scholars and artists who have
built the field of Philip Roth studies from the ground up along
with emergent scholars from around the world, this Handbook
includes chapter summaries, study questions, and an author
biography and timeline that includes key dates in Roth’s life and
publication history. It also contains a bibliography of secondary
sources for further reading as well as an overview of film and
television adaptations.
Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence,
trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in
art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee
Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such
exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane
Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud
and Incredibly Close, Frederic Briegbeder's Windows on the World,
and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the
World Trade Center. Falling After 9/11 argues that the apparent
failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in
fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the
problem of reference-of how to refer to falling-in the 21st century
and beyond.
Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence,
trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in
art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee
Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such
exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane
Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud
and Incredibly Close, Frederic Briegbeder's Windows on the World,
and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the
World Trade Center. Falling After 9/11 argues that the apparent
failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in
fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the
problem of reference-of how to refer to falling-in the 21st century
and beyond.
"Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works
(1995-2010)" moves beyond a critical reception of Philip Roth's
recent fiction that has focused primarily on an interest in post
WWII America. By contrast, Aimee Pozorski argues that these novels
grapple more comprehensively with US history in their fascination
with America's "traumatic beginnings" and the legacy of the
American Revolution. Drawing on close readings and trauma theory,
"Roth and Trauma" reveals the problem of history in Roth's later
works to be the unexpected and repeated appearance of historical
trauma that links the still-unfinished American dream with the
nightmarish quality of our recent history.
"Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works
(1995-2010)" moves beyond a critical reception of Philip Roth's
recent fiction that has focused primarily on an interest in post
WWII America. By contrast, Aimee Pozorski argues that these novels
grapple more comprehensively with US history in their fascination
with America's "traumatic beginnings" and the legacy of the
American Revolution. Drawing on close readings and trauma theory,
"Roth and Trauma" reveals the problem of history in Roth's later
works to be the unexpected and repeated appearance of historical
trauma that links the still-unfinished American dream with the
nightmarish quality of our recent history.
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