{"product_id":"postcolonial-parabola-jay-rajiva-9781501351501","title":"Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma","description":"\u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough postcolonial literature's capacity to represent trauma has received considerable scrutiny in recent years, \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Parabola\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Rajiva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501351508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501351501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Jay Rajiva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47200757678335,"sku":"9781501351501","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_835d99ce-c8b7-4ee0-8d6b-c65cf08ce077.jpg?v=1756787776","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postcolonial-parabola-jay-rajiva-9781501351501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}