Stella Setka

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

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Produktbeschreibung

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.

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Produktdetails

• Reading Trauma and Memory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9781498583855
• ISBN-10: 1498583857
• Artikelnr.: 63598596

Autorenporträt

Stella Setka is associate professor of English at West Los Angeles College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Phantasmic Trauma Narratives
Chapter 1: Phantasmic Africanisms: Igbo Cosmology in Octavia Butler's
Kindred
Chapter 2: Phantasmic Midrashim: The Midrashic Roots of Jonathan Safran
Foer's Everything is Illuminated
Chapter 3: A Phantasmic Tribalography: The Case of LeAnne Howe's Miko
Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Chapter 4: Projecting the Phantasmic
Conclusion: The Call to Infinite Responsibility