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Postcolonial parabola : literature, tactility, and the ethics of representing trauma /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.