Ghost Android Animal Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human 1st Edition by Tony M Vinci 9781000760569 1000760561

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• ISBN 10: 1000760561
• ISBN 13: 9781000760569
• Author: 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.

Table contents:

1 “Almost Human in Their Hysteria”: The Open Wound and Posthumanist Lifeworlds in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
2 “A Piece of a World . . .”: Working-Through Posthumanist Personhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Part II Wound and World: Posthumanist Ethics and Popular Genres
3 “‘Where Modern Minds Are Weakest’”: Spectrality Studies, Posthumanist Ethics, and the Post-Traumatic Subject in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
4 “‘We Never Understood What the Question Was’”: Traumatic Deferment and the Transsubjective Soul in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
5 Animal Sacraments: Photographing Animal/Trauma in Clive Barker’s Sacrament

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