Author : Jay Rajiva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501325361
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Parabola by : Jay Rajiva
Download or read book Postcolonial Parabola written by Jay Rajiva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
