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Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

Rajiva, Jay

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ISBN10: 1501351508
ISBN13: 9781501351501
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 21 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading. As the conditions from which postcolonial literatures have emerged require a break from proper ways to represent trauma, postcolonial writers expand and complicate the practice of reading itself.

Though postcolonial literature's capacity to represent trauma has received considerable scrutiny in recent years, Postcolonial Parabola is innovative in its consideration of the postcolonial text as a literary object. Working within a phenomenological framework that ties together disparate postcolonial periods, Jay Rajiva explores how narrative structure shapes the experience of reading the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka. He argues that these texts enmesh the reader in an asymptotic tactility: though readers might approach the disclosure of trauma, they cannot arrive at it. Awareness of the asymptotic nature of reading such works is crucial to a meaningful, ethical engagement with literary representations of postcolonial trauma.

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