Postcolonial parabola : literature, tactility, and the ethics of representing trauma / Jay Rajiva.

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