Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

by Stella Setka
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

by Stella Setka

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498583831
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 05/19/2020
Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
Pages: 174
Product dimensions: 6.33(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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
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