Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human

ISBN-13: 9781032239705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 230 str.

Tony M. Vinci

Opis

Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought, revealing how depictions of non-human agents invite readers to cross cultural thresholds and interact with the "impossible" pain of others.

Spis treści

Part One1. “Mapping the Homeland of the Unknown: Trauma, Narrative, and Posthuman Ethics”2. “A Sound ‘Almost Human’: The Open Wound, Anti-Anthropocentric Authority, and Posthuman Identities in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses!”Part Two3. “‘A Piece of a World of Ghosts’: Working-Through Spectrality Studies and Racial Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”4. “Animal Sacraments: Trans-Subjective Animality in William Heyen’s Crazy Horse in Stillness”5. “Posthuman Wounds: Traumatic Deferment and the Trans-Subjective Soul in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”Epilogue“Trauma and the Fantastic”

O autorze

Tony M. Vici is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University-Chillicothe.