Jay Rajiva

Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature (eBook, PDF)

Reading Beyond the Single Subject

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429659874
• Artikelnr.: 59751863

Autorenporträt

Jay Rajiva is Associate Professor of Global Anglophone Literature at Georgia State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: animating postcolonial trauma
1. Survival's strange shape: prophecy and materiality
2. Witnessing at the limit: creative identification through dividual
relation
3. Nonsentient insurgence: perception, implication, and the disunity of
locale
4. Genres, possessed: trauma literature's coming of age
Conclusion: entangling postcolonial reading

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Introduction: animating postcolonial trauma

1. Survival's strange shape: prophecy and materiality

2. Witnessing at the limit: creative identification through dividual relation

3. Nonsentient insurgence: perception, implication, and the disunity of locale

4. Genres, possessed: trauma literature's coming of age

Conclusion: entangling postcolonial reading