Ghost, android, animal: trauma and literature beyond the human

Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought. Investigating how literary representations of ghosts, androids, and animals engage traumatic experie...

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Main Author: Vinci, Tony M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2020
Series:Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought. Investigating how literary representations of ghosts, androids, and animals engage traumatic experience, this book revisits canonical texts by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and aligns them with experimental and popular texts by Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, and Clive Barker. In establishing this textual field, the book reveals how depictions of non-human agents invite readers to cross subjective and cultural thresholds and interact with the "impossible" pain of others. Ultimately, this study asks us to consider new practices for reading trauma literature that enlarges our conceptions of the human and the real
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:0429291620
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