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Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives
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2020
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8383-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8384-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
163
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
1 Phantasmic Africanisms No access Pages 23 - 50
2 Phantasmic Midrashim No access Pages 51 - 80
3 A Phantasmic Tribalography No access Pages 81 - 106
4 Projecting the Phantasmic No access Pages 107 - 136
