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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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"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 necessitate a break from the "proper" ways to represent trauma, postcolonial writers expand and complicate the very practice of reading. 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 the reader might approach the disclosure of trauma, he 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."-- Provided by publisher |
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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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Postcolonial Comparison; 1 Excess and Tactility: Toward Interpretation as Vexed Contact ; Metaphor and phenomenology; 2 Transfixion and Subversion: The Unexpected Endings of J. Devi and Coetzee ; Collective violence and South Asia; Apartheid and the zero ending; 3 Seduction and Substitution: Behr, Sidhwa, and the Child Narrator ; Apartheid, aphorism, and vocal overlay; A child's language of Partition; 4 Motion and Stillness: Surface as Depth in Dangor and Ondaatje ; The scandal of return; Vexed cognition. |
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Syncretism and surfaceThe seen and areality; Conclusion: Postcolonial Relation; Notes; Introduction: Postcolonial Comparison; Chapter 1 Excess and Tactility; Chapter 2 Transfixion and Subversion; Chapter 3 Seduction and Substitution; Chapter 4 Motion and Stillness; Conclusion: Postcolonial Relation; References; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature. |
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature. |
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Literary theory. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
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Literature. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rajiva, Jay. Postcolonial parabola. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 2017 9781501325342 (DLC) 2016053213 (OCoLC)954271056 |
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9781501325359 (electronic book) |
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1501325353 (electronic book) |
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1501325345 |
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9781501325342 |
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9781501325373 (online) |
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150132537X |
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9781501325366 |
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1501325361 |
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9781501325342 (hardcover) |
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