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Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history.

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“I have, quite simply, not read this kind of writing in which historical trauma and the limits of linguistic representation are probed in just this way. Haver’s work moves from literary criticism to a theory of the social. He suggests that what is most historically remarkable about unthinkable loss is precisely what eludes and yet structures what can be thought.”—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

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The Body of This Death

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1997
      ISBN13: 9780804727167, 978-0804727167
      ISBN10: 0804727163

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history.

      Trade Review
      “I have, quite simply, not read this kind of writing in which historical trauma and the limits of linguistic representation are probed in just this way. Haver’s work moves from literary criticism to a theory of the social. He suggests that what is most historically remarkable about unthinkable loss is precisely what eludes and yet structures what can be thought.”—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

      Table of Contents
      Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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