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Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference

Title
Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / Joanne Lipson Freed.
Author
Freed, Joanne Lipson, 1983-
Publication
  • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xi, 206 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Examines the theme of haunting in recent U.S. and postcolonial literature as a response to the dynamics of transnational literary circulation"--
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
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFD 17-6123
ISBN
  • 9781501713767
  • 1501713760
LCCN
2017013435
OCLC
975877858
Author
Freed, Joanne Lipson, 1983- author.
Title
Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / Joanne Lipson Freed.
Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Freed, Joanne Lipson, 1983- author. Haunting encounters Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501713828
Research Call Number
JFD 17-6123
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