Insurgent Testimonies
Rizzuto, Nicole M.
Insurgent Testimonies Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / [electronic resource] : Nicole M. Rizzuto. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Challenging ruptures: testimonial insurgencies, spectral witnesses -- Compelled confessions and forced attachments in Joseph Conrad's Under Western eyes and "Poland revisited" -- Traumas of nation and narrative: legal and literary witnessing in Rebecca West's wartime writings -- Vindicating the law: H. G. de Llisser, V. S. Reid, and the Morant Bay Rebellion -- Testimony and the crisis of the juridical order in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.
9780823267859
Literature and society--English-speaking countries.
Nationalism and literature--English-speaking countries.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
War in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PR478.I53 / R59 2016
820.9/0091
Insurgent Testimonies Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / [electronic resource] : Nicole M. Rizzuto. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Challenging ruptures: testimonial insurgencies, spectral witnesses -- Compelled confessions and forced attachments in Joseph Conrad's Under Western eyes and "Poland revisited" -- Traumas of nation and narrative: legal and literary witnessing in Rebecca West's wartime writings -- Vindicating the law: H. G. de Llisser, V. S. Reid, and the Morant Bay Rebellion -- Testimony and the crisis of the juridical order in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.
9780823267859
Literature and society--English-speaking countries.
Nationalism and literature--English-speaking countries.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
War in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PR478.I53 / R59 2016
820.9/0091