Stella Setka

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas such as slavery and genocide. Drawing on trauma theory and using an ethnic studies methodology, this book shows how phantasmic novels and films present historical trauma in ways that seek to invite reader/viewer empathy about the cultural groups represented. In so doing, the author argues that these texts also provide models of interracial alliances to encourage contemporary cross-cultural engagement as a restorative response to historical traumas. Further, the author examines how these narratives function as sites of cultural memory that provide a critical purchase on the enormity of enslavement, genocide, and dispossession.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978752368
• Artikelnr.: 74830346

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