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Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature
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This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power a...
This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature.
Details
- Creator
- Nicole M. Rizzuto
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Fordham University Press, 2015
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780823267842, 0823267849
- Includes index.
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Challenging Ruptures: Testimonial Insurgencies, Spectral Witnesses; 1. Compelled Confessions and Forced Attachments in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes and "Poland Revisited"; 2. Traumas of Nation and Narrative: Legal and Literary Witnessing in Rebecca West's Wartime Writings; 3. Vindicating the Law: H. G. de Lisser, V. S. Reid, and the Morant Bay Rebellion; Testimony and the Crisis of the Juridical Order in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Subjects
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature -- History and criticism.
- Imperialism in literature.
- War in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Justice, Administration of, in literature.
- Nationalism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
- Literature and society -- English-speaking countries.