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Acknowledgments
The first thoughts that have led to this project started their journey about a decade ago. Inspiration came from a few writers and scholars whom I was privileged to meet and work with for several years, and many others whom I had come to know through their writings. I owe the discovery of most of the sources present in this work to my former professors from the Graduate School of the University of Miami. I feel particularly indebted to Michael Rothberg, who showed me the turbulent locus where literary theory meets trauma studies; Frank Stringfellow, who made me understand psychoanalysis and its theoretical applications beyond the limits to which Freud could possibly have intended for us to take them; Frank Palmeri and Russ Castronovo, who introduced me to contemporary literary, social, and aesthetic theories without which this would certainly be a different work; Lindsey Tucker, who helped me see the light amidst the aporia of postmodernist fiction; Robert Antoni, who got me hooked on Faulkner, García Márquez, and the myth-making process of magical realism; and Lester Goran, who taught me that writing, “good” writing, has nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with the writer’s imagination.