TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vinci,Tony M.
TI  - Ghost, android, animal: trauma and literature beyond the human 
T2  - Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
SN  - 9780429291623
AV  - PN56.P914 V55 2020
U1  - 809.93353 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Wounds and injuries in literature
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - Ghosts in literature
KW  - Androids in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429291623
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -