The calendar of loss : race, sexuality, and mourning in the early era of AIDS / by Dagmawi Woubshet.

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction : looking for the dead : disprized mourners and the work of compounding loss -- Lyric mourning : sorrow songs and AIDS elegies -- Archiving the dead : AIDS obituaries and final innings -- Visions of loss : hip hop, apocalypse, and AIDS -- Epistles to the dead : AIDS orphans and the work of mourning -- Conclusion : tallying loss.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-164) and index.