Ghost, android, animal : trauma and literature beyond the human / Tony M. Vinci.
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TextSeries: Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429291623; 0429291620; 9781000760385; 1000760383; 9781000760569; 1000760561; 9781000760200; 1000760200Subject(s): 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 & FantasyDDC classification: 809.93353 LOC classification: PN56.P914 | V55 2020Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement 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.
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.
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