Beschreibung:
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.
Part One 1. "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 Two 3. "'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"