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Ghost, Android, Animal Tony M. Vinci

Ghost, Android, Animal By Tony M. Vinci

Ghost, Android, Animal by Tony M. Vinci


Summary

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.

Ghost, Android, Animal Summary

Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human by Tony M. Vinci

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.

About Tony M. Vinci

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

Table of Contents

Part One1. Mapping the Homeland of the Unknown: Trauma, Narrative, and Posthuman Ethics2. 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 Beloved4. Animal Sacraments: Trans-Subjective Animality in William Heyen's Crazy Horse in Stillness5. Posthuman Wounds: Traumatic Deferment and the Trans-Subjective Soul in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?EpilogueTrauma and the Fantastic

Additional information

NLS9781032239705
9781032239705
1032239700
Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human by Tony M. Vinci
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-12-13
230
N/A
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