Empathy And The Phantasmic In Ethnic American Trauma Narratives
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Empathy And The Phantasmic In Ethnic American Trauma Narratives
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Author : Stella Setka
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Empathy And The Phantasmic In Ethnic American Trauma Narratives written by Stella Setka and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Ethnic American Literatures And Critical Race Narratology
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Author : Alexa Weik von Mossner
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-16
Ethnic American Literatures And Critical Race Narratology written by Alexa Weik von Mossner and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume interrogate the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity, along with other important identity markers such as class, religion, gender, and sexuality. Importantly, the book also explores how paying attention to the formal features of ethnic American literatures changes our under-standing of narrative theory and how narrative theories can help us to think about author functions and race. The international and diverse group of contributors includes top scholars in narrative theory and in race and ethnic studies, and the texts they analyze concern a wide variety of topics, from the representation of time and space to the narration of trauma and other deeply emotional memories to the importance of literary paratexts, genre structures, and author functions.
Lost Loss In American Elegiac Poetry
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Author : Toshiaki Komura
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-10-07
Lost Loss In American Elegiac Poetry written by Toshiaki Komura and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry: Tracing Inaccessible Grief from Stevens to Post-9/11 examines contemporary literary expressions of losses that are “lost” on us, inquiring what it means to “lose” loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible. Toshiaki Komura analyzes a range of elegiac poetry that does not neatly align with conventional assumptions about the genre, including Wallace Stevens’s “The Owl in the Sarcophagus,” Sylvia Plath’s last poems, Elizabeth Bishop’s Geography III, Sharon Olds’s The Dead and the Living, Louise Glück’s Averno, and poems written after 9/11. What these poems reveal at the intersection of personal and communal mourning are the mechanism of cognitive myth-making involved in denied grief and its social and ethical implications. Engaging with an assortment of philosophical, psychoanalytic, and psychological theories, Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry elucidates how poetry gives shape to the vague despondency of unrecognized loss and what kind of phantomic effects these equivocal grieving experiences may create.
Octavia E Butler
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Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-12-05
Octavia E Butler written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible readings of Butler's science fiction and her texts on racism and pollution. A maven of speculative fiction so prescient that it hovers between tocsin and prophecy, Butler survives through her print stories, essays, novels and musings on individualism and compromise. This book guides the reader on a variety of Butler pieces, from her most obscure titles to her historical entries and pieces that speculate upon science, metaphysics, linguistics, psychology, writing and religion. The text serves as a guide through the depths of Octavia Butler's works and reinforces the reasons for which her name so often appears on reading lists for higher learning.
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
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Author : Alan Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives written by Alan Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with American fiction categories.
This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'metafiction', as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration.
The Ghostly And The Ghosted In Literature And Film
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Author : Lisa B. Kröger
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware
Release Date : 2013-03-14
The Ghostly And The Ghosted In Literature And Film written by Lisa B. Kröger and has been published by University of Delaware this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities reads a variety of texts, from the Gothic novels of late eighteenth-century England to modern Asian horror films, arguing that, as different as these stories are, the theme beneath the hauntings is the same. The essays in this collection all develop the concept of social ghosting and explore what it means to be ghostly while alive, marginalized at the edges of community and society.
Miko Kings
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Author : LeAnne Howe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Miko Kings written by LeAnne Howe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ada (Okla.) categories.
'Miko Kings' is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, during the baseball fever of 1903 and simultaneously in 1969 during the Vietnam era. The story centres on Hope Little Leader, a Choctaw pitcher for the Miko Kings baseball team; Lucius Mummy, a switch hitter; and Ezol Daggs, the postal clerk in Indian Territory.
Toward A Literary Ecology
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Author : Karen E. Waldron
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2013-07-29
Toward A Literary Ecology written by Karen E. Waldron and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this book, editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments, and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in “new” nature writing. Investigating texts for the complex interconnections they represent, this book suggests what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our own world.
The Cult Of Alien Gods
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Author : Jason Colavito
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2010-03-05
The Cult Of Alien Gods written by Jason Colavito and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fans of fantasy/horror writer H.P. Lovecraft must add The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture to their reading lists.- California BookwatchCombining literary theory, cultural criticism and muckraking, Colavito aims to debunk alternative history...He does a fair job of presenting his case, using a great deal of textual analysis, but believers will dismiss it as yet another attempt to suppress the truth, while those who haven't been immersed in the literature are likely to be bewildered or indifferent...the writing is engaging and the topic intriguing...- Publishers WeeklyNearly half of all Americans believe in the existence of extraterrestrials, and many are also convinced that aliens have visited earth at some point in history. Included among such popular beliefs is the notion that so-called ancient astronauts (visitors from outer space) were responsible for historical wonders like the pyramids. In The Cult of Alien Gods, author Jason Colavito reveals for the first time that the entire genre of ancient astronaut books is based upon fictional horror stories, whose author once wrote that he never wished to mislead anyone.In this entertaining and informative book, Colavito traces the origins of the belief in ancient extraterrestrial visitors to the work of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This amazing tale takes the reader through fifty years of pop culture and pseudoscience highlighting such influential figures and developments as Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods), Graham Hancock (Fingerprints of the Gods), Zecharia Sitchin (Twelfth Planet), and the Raelian Revolution. The astounding and improbable connections among these various characters are revealed, along with the disturbing consequences of Lovecraft's little joke for modern science and public knowledge.Beyond documenting Lovecraft's influence on ancient astronaut theories and Raelian cloning efforts, Colavito also argues that the appeal of such modern myths is a troubling sign in an age when science is having its greatest success. He suggests that at the dawn of the 21st century Western society is witnessing a deep-seated erosion of Enlightenment values that are the basis of the modern world.Jason Colavito is a freelance writer and editor who has written for Skeptic magazine, among other publications.
Confluence Narratives
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Author : Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Confluence Narratives written by Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Informed by postcolonial theory, this book analyzes a selection of novels from North and South Americas to discuss the impact of ethnicity in the construction of national identities, highlight the inherently transcultural aspect of the American character, and to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation.