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Tag: Pandemic

Heaven Is a Place in Your Head: COVID-19, Angels in America, and the Sublime 
Jane Brinkley '24September 28, 2021Issue 2 (Fall 2021)No comments

Responding to the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jane Brinkley turns to the sublime: the sense of awe we feel when witnessing a force of incredible magnitude or power. Brinkley uses two narratives from the AIDS epidemic to exemplify the sublime — David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America — […]

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