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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rizzuto, Nicole M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and literature--English-speaking countries.

Nationalism and literature.

English literature--History and criticism--20th century--English-speaking countries.

English literature.

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism--English-speaking countries.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Imperialism in literature.

War in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Justice, Administration of, in literature.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fordham University Press 2016

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong’o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in trauma and memory studies and invite us to reassess divisions and classifications in literary studies that generate such categories as modernist, colonial, postcolonial, national, and world literatures. Departing from tenets of modernist studies and from methods in the field of trauma and memory studies, Rizzuto contends that acute as well as chronic disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and extra-legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of literatures from the modernist, colonial, and postcolonial periods. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-8232-6785-7