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Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, & The Ethics Of Representing Trauma by Jay Rajiva

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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.

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.

Jay Rajiva argues that the narrative structure of  the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka enmeshes the reader in asymptotic tactility: though readers might approach the  dsiclosure of trauma, they cannort 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.