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Table of Contents

Foreword Wendy B. Faris

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction: Writing Horror: Traumatic Imagination and Magical Realism

1

Chapter 1: Living with Trauma: The Uncanny Reality of Shock Chronotopes

25

Chapter 2: Writing the Vanishing Real: Hyperreality and Magical Realism

61

Chapter 3: Writing Pain and Magic: Magical Realism as Postmodern Fantasy

83

Chapter 4: “Who Am I and Where Is My Country and Where Do I Belong?”: Surviving Slavery

117

Chapter 5: “Handcuffed to History”: Surviving Colonialism

173

Chapter 6: “How Can We Eat and Drink When so Many Have Perished?”: Surviving the Holocaust

217