Insurgent Testimonies [electronic resource] : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 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 -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 820.9/0091 23
- PR478.I53 R59 2016
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.
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