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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