... and short fiction. As astute as much of the critical work is, none of it addresses the cornerstone of Kiernan’s fiction: trauma. This essay considers Kiernan’s novel The Red Tree as a queer American gothic novel dealing with trauma and its lingering effects on its witnesses. Through its complex, fragmentary...

...Kelly Hurley The essays in this section remind us that to suffer from trauma is not purely the province of the human. Nor is the destruction of natural habitats traumatic only to the human beings who share them, though the concepts and vocabulary that trauma theory provides are of limited...

... for the psyche, tastes good. We watch or read ecohorror for the attraction and repulsion its various traumas offer. Horror and the disgusting captivate us, reminding us at the same time of our corporeality and its fragility. Slime is central here. Slime is the horror of boundary transgressions, of indefinability...

..., marked w ith incidents o f trauma: the m urder o f Spider-Man's uncle, the death of Batman's parents, the destruction o f Superman's home planet, etc.Thus, the m onthly superhero comic requires a distinctly different model than the novel; It is best understood as a complex network o f obsession...

... Baldwin's texts frequently delineate and experiment w ith tw o spaces: the American Express and the queer underground. Both are characterized by a peculiar tem porality or speed. For Baldwin, those onboard the American Express are im m o ­ bilized by their collective insistence on "innocence" as they race...

... to past trauma inflicted on the queer female body. It is the club bathroom that provides yet forecloses eroticism between Moira, Offred’s best friend pre-Gilead (played by Samira Wiley) and another woman. Moira, a black woman, resides in Canada after escaping her fate first as a handmaid and later...

... at Indiana University for all of their generosity and lucid insight. M ad ely n D e tlo ff is assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she works on modernist studies, feminist, gender, queer theories, and trauma studies. Her book. The Persistence...

... Y. . “ Has the Queer Ever Been Human? ” In “Queer Inhumanisms,” edited by Chen Mel Y. and Luciano Dana . Special issue, GLQ 21 , nos. 2–3 ( 2015 ): 183 – 207 . McKay Claude . Romance in Marseille , edited by Holcomb Gary Edward and Maxwell William J...

... of counterfeit children, an overdeterm ination of "the child" produced through the repetition com pulsion of childhood trauma, Bruhm also reveals a positive side. As the show exposes the dark ele­ ments of "fam ily-bound ideology" (56), It also "fashion[s[ queer alignments, Identifications, and expansive...

..., is remarkable in its fecundity. It is space that is never filled, potential that never runs out. No matter how many stories, how many writers, there's always more space. Slash as space, space as both yearning void and infinite potential. (Julad 2003) T o date, work on women, queerness, and online com m unities...

... would operate within a global capitalist hegemony underpinned by normative whiteness. Would accepting money in response for past traumas while the world itself is still restrained by the fetters of capitalist control and global anti-Blackness be enough to remedy the effects of history? To explore how...

..., or what Deepti Misri calls the “optical regime,” and also headed to a juncture of saturation. 4 This saturation can be accorded to visual fatigue arising out of the recirculation and repetition of the same visual tropes of embodied violence and trauma. The overwhelming dominance of state-centric vision...

... it was that in a graduate medieval literature seminar I encountered Carolyn Dinshaw’s autobiographical mode of scholarship from How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time . I was enraptured, stilled. Reading Dinshaw let me imagine that I was watching over her shoulder while she narrated...

... guise as experimental writer and queer theorist. A final pair of sections explores the resonance between a photo­ graph by Bruce Davidson that, by putting pressure on an elided distinction between skin and flesh, introduces some awkward personal racial feelings to the celebratory discourse of affect...

...-precariat, unapologetically queer lovers, practiced and practical thieves, migrants and refugees, colonial subjects, sex workers, members of the Black diaspora, political radicals of numerous stripes—it seems nearly everyone has found a roomy and sympathetic home in McKay’s slim little book. 8...

... American minor’s perils and trauma. Children are not a crisis. “What has changed in the last few months,” he asks, writing in July 2014, “so that tens of thousands of Central American children flee from violence?” Martínez infers that “if El Salvador’s children would leave because of the violence alone...

..., Berkeley. I was also interested in Buddhist studies, because I was trying to understand how to heal from trauma. I didn’t have the words yet for historical trauma, but I was trying to navigate it through religious and spiritual life. As I learned more about Buddhism, specifically Tibetan Buddhism...

... can productively be juxtaposed with Nonceba’s own interaction with that same tree. As she convalesces from her physical wounds and the trauma inflicted on her language and memory, Nonceba sits in front of her house in Kezi and observes the marula tree amid a razed town. The moment follows immediately...

... toward their indigenous heritage pertains to the trauma of cultural loss and fractured indigenous knowledge in the context of the US matrix of power; representations of that loss are palpable in the exhibition of The Chicano Codices . Loss and fracture narrativizes the Codex Not-Vargas...

... right, these comics serve as a cultural barometer, marking a pop turn to cynicism and nihilism , stretching the lim its o f the genre. Philip Sandifer's essay, "Amazing Fantasies: Trauma, Affect, and Superheroes," takes up the serialized Superhero comic where W right leaves off. Sandifer reads...