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Author:

Freed, Joanne Lipson, 1983- author.

Title:

Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / Joanne Lipson Freed.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 206 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Ghosts in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Memory in literature.
Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Ghost stories--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Commonwealth fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
Commonwealth fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
Ghost stories.
Ghosts in literature.
Memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : fictional encounters -- Figures of estrangement -- Telling the traumas of history -- Invisible victims, visible absences -- Haunting futures and the dystopian imagination -- Conclusion : on dream fish and the limits of fiction.

Summary:

"Examines the theme of haunting in recent U.S. and postcolonial literature as a response to the dynamics of transnational literary circulation"-- Author's Web site.

ISBN:

1501713760
9781501713767

OCLC:

(OCoLC)975877858

LCCN:

2017013435

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)