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Facing It AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

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For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Fac...

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Main Author: Chambers, Ross (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1998
Subjects:
Gender studies, gender groups
Sexuality Studies
Literary Studies - Literary Criticism and Theory
Cultural Studies
Literary Studies - American Literature
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Summary:For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing It examines the genre not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. Through a detailed study of three such diaries, originating respectively in France, the United States, and Australia, Ross Chambers demonstrates that issues concerning the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading are linked by a common concern with the problematics of survivorhood.
ISBN:mpub.14463
9780472904075
9780472087488 
Access:Open Access

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