Insurgent testimonies [electronic resource] :witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto.
By: Rizzuto, Nicole M.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. 2015)Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780823267859.Subject(s): 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 criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 820.9/0091 Online resources: Full text available: 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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