Insurgent Testimonies Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature /

Insurgent Testimonies Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Access E-Book
Access Note:Open Access.
Main Author: Rizzuto, Nicole M.
Corporate Author: Project Muse.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Ngu⁺ёgi⁺ё wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.

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