Within The Magicians (2009) and its sequels, trauma not only impacts subjectivity and sociality but the body. ![]() Grossman employs these conventions to destabilize such ideological certainties and, instead, uses them to establish an ethical relationship between the territories of trauma and the posthuman body. ![]() ![]() Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy highlights a utopian longing expressed in much young adult fantasy for a type of meta-cultural identity-an idealized mode of authentic subjectivity that transcends the technicity of language, remains insulated from cultural encoding, and functions as a discrete, unitary self moored to traditional conceptions of the human body.
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