Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning

Abstract

'Flowers, boys, and childhood memories': Derek Jarman's pedagogy -- Queering the Kaddish: Amy Hoffman's Hospital Time and the practice of critical memory -- Resisting redemption: strategies of defamliarization in Eric Michaels's Unbecoming -- Angels in Antigua: the diasporic of melancholy in Jamaica Kinkaid's My Brother -- Conclusion: Melancholic reparations.