Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

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.

List 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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Stella Setka
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781498583855
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8385-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, The Americas, Film: styles & genres, American indigenous languages, Film: styles and genres