'For the things that could be that look better than the things that are...' ... Sometimes people leave places and you get left behind with that. Because love can be everything, but never enough, you can be everything, but never enough. ... To remember you now is to deceive the moon that it has the light of its own. So how do I forget you, is utter destruction the only way? ... Busted train stations, crowded streetways, Why do things always feel better when they're worn out? The sweater that's kept in the cupboard for months smells sweeter now that I wear it. Somehow keeping it inside all this time has made it remember you too. It feels warmer now. But perhaps I don't feel that way with you. ... Thank you for not stopping me... For when you didn't stop me, It made me fly... ... A heartfelt story of love, loss and pain, an endless list of questions left unanswered, a flight to self-love and growth - these are the words of my wounds.

Written by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, this volume succinctly explores a host of issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments, pro and con, suppressing it. Chapters analyze hate speech on campus, hate speech against whites, the history

Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.

In this book, the authors, all legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory start from the experience of injury from racist hate speech and develop a theory of the first amendment that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of "first amendment orthodoxy", the authors argue that only a history of racism can explain why defamation, invasion of privacy and fraud are exempt from free-speech guarantees but racist verbal assault is not.

Written by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, this volume succinctly explores a host of issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments, pro and con, suppressing it. Chapters analyze hate speech on campus, hate speech against whites, the history