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This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, & suicidal urges.

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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.

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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.

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This book examines how testimonialists Elvia Alvarado, Medea Benjamin, Peter Dickinson, Benjamin Alire Senz, Clea Koff, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers, Uwem Akpan, and Alicia Partnoy employ innovative socioliterary techniques to reactivate the discourse of human rights.

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Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later explores how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. Looking at media from the 1980s to today, the representations of HIV/AIDS and their political ramifications shift across time.

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This book examines unconventional elegies of losses that are lost on us, discussing what it means to lose loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible.

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Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize ones life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to challenge hegemonic power by keeping memory in question and receptive to alternative futures to come.

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Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize ones life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to challenge hegemonic power by keeping memory in question and receptive to alternative futures to come.

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Philo-Semitic Violence investigates Polish philo-Semitism that grew in popularity before the 2015 nation-wide turn to authoritarianism. This inquiry shows how this specious phenomenon reproduced patterns of exclusion and violence, despite best intentions, because Polish anti-Semitism was not problematized, reassessed and rejected in the light of its consequences.

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This book explores complicity in the novels of Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Pynchon, and Margaret Atwood. It examines how complicity occurs through failures of witnessing that are present on a thematic level, both in narrative form itself and in readers engagement with the texts.

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The Latinx Urban Condition brings together interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960s to the present. The manuscript focuses on analyzing the works of Latinx authors who write about the city.

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This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

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This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

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This volume examines late medieval and early modern warfare in France, the Hispanic World, and the Dutch Republic through the lens of trauma and memory studies. The essays, focusing on history, literature, and visual culture, demonstrate how people living with wartime violence processed and remembered the trauma of war.