![]() ![]() Processing traumatic experiences through the frame of affective truth-as opposed to testimonial or objective fact-is already an interpretive act. Through a shared emphasis on the concept of “necessary fictions” and the gathering-together of promiscuous or nontraditional archival materials, each novel centers feelings-oriented approaches to processing grief and isolation that are less readily addressed through normative therapeutic means. This article argues, drawing from the work of Ann Cvetkovich, that Kiernan’s novels self-consciously produce and serve as provocative archives of queer trauma. ![]() ![]() Kiernan’s The Red Tree (2010) and The Drowning Girl (2012) are disquieting queer ghost stories about feeling bad and bad feelings-metafictional novels masquerading as journals or memoirs that present their “hauntings” as the afterlife of pain that echoes, repeats, and distorts space/time. ![]()
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