Dr. Jay Rajiva

Biography

Jay Rajiva is an Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Concordia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research interests include Postcolonial Literature, Transnational Diasporic Literatures, Trauma Theory, Caribbean Literatures, and African Literatures. Rajiva’s scholarship focuses on the relationship between the act of reading and the ethics of representing trauma in postcolonial literature, particularly in Caribbean, pan-African, and South Asian fiction. His notable works include 'Animist Reading Postcolonial Trauma Literature' and 'Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, Ethics Representing Trauma'. He has published articles in various journals, contributing significantly to the fields of postcolonial studies and trauma theory. He aims to explore how postcolonial literature structures the representation of trauma through levels of narration, metaphor, and aesthetics, raising critical questions about the ethical implications of reading literature emerging from traumatic postcolonial histories.

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