Vinci, Tony M.,
Ghost, android, animal : trauma and literature beyond the human / Tony M. Vinci. - 1 online resource - Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture .
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.
9780429291623 0429291620 9781000760385 1000760383 9781000760569 1000760561 9781000760200 1000760200
Literature--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Animals in literature.
Ghosts in literature.
Androids in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
PN56.P914 / V55 2020
809.93353
Ghost, android, animal : trauma and literature beyond the human / Tony M. Vinci. - 1 online resource - Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture .
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.
9780429291623 0429291620 9781000760385 1000760383 9781000760569 1000760561 9781000760200 1000760200
Literature--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Animals in literature.
Ghosts in literature.
Androids in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
PN56.P914 / V55 2020
809.93353