1st Edition
Ghost, Android, Animal Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human
By Tony M. Vinci
Copyright 2020
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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”
Biography
Tony M. Vici is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University-Chillicothe.
