The Emmett Till Trauma in US Fiction: Psychological Realism, Magic Realism, and the Spectral - Hardcover

by Martín Fernández Fernández (Author)

This book analyzes the various ways of coming to terms with the Emmett Till case in US fiction. The critical analysis of three novels is imbued with a theoretical framework mainly based on trauma theory but also influenced by spectrality studies and black studies.

Author Biography

Martín Fernández Fernández is a Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of A Coruña (UDC), Galicia, Spain. In July 2021, he earned his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies of the United States from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).