Punctuation Power by Marvin Terban

Punctuation Power by Marvin Terban

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 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. Working within a phenomenological framework that ties together disparate postcolonial periods, Jay Rajiva explores how narrative structure shapes the experience of reading the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka. He argues that these texts enmesh the reader in an asymptotic tactility: though readers might approach the disclosure of trauma, they cannot 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.

Marvin Terban is a bestselling, award-winning author of more than 30 books for children, most of them about the English language. Called a master of wordplay by the American Library Association's Booklist and Mr. English for Kids by the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club, Marvin is truly an expert on teaching the art of language. For over 40 years, Marvin has taught English, Latin, Public Speaking, Theater, and other subjects at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780590386746
ISBN 10	0590386743
Titel	Punctuation Power
Autor	Marvin Terban
Serie	Scholastic Guides
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-04-01
Seitenanzahl	96
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