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Postcolonial Parabola

Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

By: Jay Rajiva

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Postcolonial Parabola

Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

By: Jay Rajiva

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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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501325353

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Postcolonial Parabola

Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

By: Jay Rajiva

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Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

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An innovative study of literary representations of postcolonial trauma, exploring how they both expand and limit the reader's experience of trauma"--

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1501325345

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Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature

By: Jay Rajiva

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Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature

By: Jay Rajiva

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between contemporary trauma literatures of Nigeria and India on animism. As postcolonial nations move farther away from the event of decolonization in real time, the experience of trauma take place within and is generated by an increasingly precarious environment of resource scarcity, over-accelerated industrialization, and ecological crisis. These factors combine to create mixed environments marked by constantly changing interactions between human and nonhuman matter. Examining novels by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nnedi Okorafor, and Arundhati Roy, the book considers how animist beliefs shape the aesthetic representation of trauma in postcolonial literature, paying special attention to complex metaphor and narrative structure. These literary texts challenge the conventional wisdom that working through trauma involves achieving physical and psychic integrity in a stable environment. Instead, a type of provisional but substantive healing emerges in an animist relationship between human trauma victims and nonhuman matter. In this context, animism becomes a pivotal way to reframe the process of working through trauma. Offering a rich framework for analyzing trauma in postcolonial literature, this book will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial literature, Nigerian literature and South Asian literature.

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Routledge

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0429657439

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9780429657436

World Writers in English

By: Jay Parini

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World Writers in English

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Provides critical and biographical essays on English writers from parts of the former British Empire.

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New York : C. Scribner's Sons

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0684312913

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