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

by Jay Rajiva

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501351508
• ISBN13: 9781501351501
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"