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

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher 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 LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. 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 Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2017018722 ISBN 9781501713828 1501713825 9781501713835 1501713833 1501713760 9781501713767

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