Jione Havea observes how over the years Jonah has repeatedly found himself hurled into a swirling sea of interpretative methods, bobbing up and down on waves of traditional, contemporary, mainstream, and marginalized approaches. This article seeks to enter these churning waters and consider how these interpretative waves flow together to form new waves, which invite us to metaphorically surf together with the prophet Jonah, who once more has been tossed into a sea of readings. I propose that several important theoretical perspectives concerning postcolonial trauma theory are valuable for the ongoing conversation regarding what it means to read Jonah in the context of colonization, both ancient and modern. In particular, this article will focus on what postcolonial trauma theorists describe as the ‘material,’ ‘spatial,’ and ‘collective’ aspects of trauma instead of the ‘individual, temporal, and linguistic’ qualities highlighted by earlier (Western) trauma theorists (Visser, ‘Decolonizing Trauma Theory,’ 253)

Jione Havea观察了乔纳（Jonah）多年来如何反复发现自己陷入了解释方法的漩涡中，在传统，当代，主流和边缘化方法的浪潮中上下摇摆。本文试图进入这些波涛汹涌的水域，并考虑这些解释性波浪如何一起流动以形成新的波浪，这些波浪邀请我们与先知约拿（Jonah）进行隐喻性冲浪，后者又被扔进了读书之海。我认为，关于后殖民主义创伤理论的几种重要的理论观点对于正在进行的关于在古代和现代殖民化背景下阅读约拿书意味着什么的对话是有价值的。特别是，本文将重点讨论后殖民创伤理论家所描述的“物质”，“空间”，“