Jay Rajiva
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109706 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jay Rajiva |
| NOMBRES | Jay |
| APELLIDO | Rajiva |
| FIRMA | RAJIVA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgia State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Open Boat Blues
How does the musical genre of the blues complicate diaspora narratives that inadvertently privilege Eurocentric aesthetic models of diasporic experience? How might we find formal evidence of the blues in Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant’s work on migration? And in what ways does Glissant lend a Caribbean inflection to this blues-based diasporic thinking? In what follows, I attempt to “creolize” diaspora theory by reading Glissant’s Po…
Hopegoing
This article argues that Yaa Gyasi’s novel Homegoing (2016) offers an animist model of deferred hope that considers the spiritual, conscious, and “speaking” elements of non-human matter. Drawing on Harry Garuba’s notion of animism’s excessive aesthetic presence, which possesses a “spirit of constant awareness [that] functions on a logic of inclusion rather than exclusion”, it analyses the “portability” of both literal and metaphoric fire in Homeg…
Caring for Everything Inside
In this essay, I argue that Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, in short stories from her most recent collection, Everything Inside (2019), challenges toxic forms of representation by attending to the imaginative potential of Haitian migrant experience within moments of collective trauma. This challenge, I suggest, is based on bigidi, a Creole expression denoting permanent imbalance that is once philosophy, dance practice, musical aesthetic…
The Answer is Paracritical
I argue that both Rita Felski’s postcritical model (as articulated in The Limits of Critique) and its academic reception are made possible only by ignoring or erasing African-American and Afro-Caribbean modes of engagement with art that predate and complicate the critical-postcritical binary. To counteract the vanguardism of this trend in literary studies, I pair Caribbean philosopher-poet Edouard Glissant’s meditation on the origins of Creole sp…
Trauma's internal transformation
This article parts ways both with conventional application of trauma theory to J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and with critical evaluations that focus primarily on metafiction and allegory. Instead, I argue that Dostoevsky's attempts to mourn Pavel involve a sustained meditation on the traumatized mind examining the conditions of its own trauma, figured in a character suffering from unexpected fits of epilepsy (as the real-life Dostoevsk…
The instant of waking from the nightmare
This article positions agency as a necessarily lacunal aspect of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. By allowing the theatricality of doubling and metaphor to overdetermine Mustafa’s narrative, the novel implicitly challenges both the substitution of symbol for material experience and the rational logic of causation. The disruptive potential of this challenge suggests an emergent form of postcolonial experience – an unpredictable inte…
The Unbearable Burden of Levinasian Ethics
Levinas's treatment of persecution as the inaugural basis of ethical responsibility tacitly relies on the ethical subject's availability for seduction through an invitation to profane the beloved that is the obverse of the face. Using Jean Laplanche's conception of the enigmatic signifier, I interpret the face–beloved dyad as a pathological response to the primary, overwhelming, and persecutory demand of the breast on the infant. Furthermore, I s…
Trauma's internal transformation
This article parts ways both with conventional application of trauma theory to J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and with critical evaluations that focus primarily on metafiction and allegory. Instead, I argue that Dostoevsky's attempts to mourn Pavel involve a sustained meditation on the traumatized mind examining the conditions of its own trauma, figured in a character suffering from unexpected fits of epilepsy (as the real-life Dostoevsk…
The instant of waking from the nightmare
This article positions agency as a necessarily lacunal aspect of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. By allowing the theatricality of doubling and metaphor to overdetermine Mustafa’s narrative, the novel implicitly challenges both the substitution of symbol for material experience and the rational logic of causation. The disruptive potential of this challenge suggests an emergent form of postcolonial experience – an unpredictable inte…
The Unbearable Burden of Levinasian Ethics
Levinas's treatment of persecution as the inaugural basis of ethical responsibility tacitly relies on the ethical subject's availability for seduction through an invitation to profane the beloved that is the obverse of the face. Using Jean Laplanche's conception of the enigmatic signifier, I interpret the face–beloved dyad as a pathological response to the primary, overwhelming, and persecutory demand of the breast on the infant. Furthermore, I s…
The instant of waking from the nightmare
This article positions agency as a necessarily lacunal aspect of Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. By allowing the theatricality of doubling and metaphor to overdetermine Mustafa’s narrative, the novel implicitly challenges both the substitution of symbol for material experience and the rational logic of causation. The disruptive potential of this challenge suggests an emergent form of postcolonial experience – an unpredictable inte…
Trauma's internal transformation
This article parts ways both with conventional application of trauma theory to J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and with critical evaluations that focus primarily on metafiction and allegory. Instead, I argue that Dostoevsky's attempts to mourn Pavel involve a sustained meditation on the traumatized mind examining the conditions of its own trauma, figured in a character suffering from unexpected fits of epilepsy (as the real-life Dostoevsk…
The Answer is Paracritical
I argue that both Rita Felski’s postcritical model (as articulated in The Limits of Critique) and its academic reception are made possible only by ignoring or erasing African-American and Afro-Caribbean modes of engagement with art that predate and complicate the critical-postcritical binary. To counteract the vanguardism of this trend in literary studies, I pair Caribbean philosopher-poet Edouard Glissant’s meditation on the origins of Creole sp…
Caring for Everything Inside
In this essay, I argue that Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, in short stories from her most recent collection, Everything Inside (2019), challenges toxic forms of representation by attending to the imaginative potential of Haitian migrant experience within moments of collective trauma. This challenge, I suggest, is based on bigidi, a Creole expression denoting permanent imbalance that is once philosophy, dance practice, musical aesthetic…
Open Boat Blues
How does the musical genre of the blues complicate diaspora narratives that inadvertently privilege Eurocentric aesthetic models of diasporic experience? How might we find formal evidence of the blues in Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant’s work on migration? And in what ways does Glissant lend a Caribbean inflection to this blues-based diasporic thinking? In what follows, I attempt to “creolize” diaspora theory by reading Glissant’s Po…
Hopegoing
This article argues that Yaa Gyasi’s novel Homegoing (2016) offers an animist model of deferred hope that considers the spiritual, conscious, and “speaking” elements of non-human matter. Drawing on Harry Garuba’s notion of animism’s excessive aesthetic presence, which possesses a “spirit of constant awareness [that] functions on a logic of inclusion rather than exclusion”, it analyses the “portability” of both literal and metaphoric fire in Homeg…
Aesthetics (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Literature (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 obras) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Metaphor (3 obras)