Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rizzuto, Nicole M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Imperialism in literature.

War in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Justice, Administration of, in literature.

Nationalism and literature--English-speaking countries.

Nationalism and literature.

Literature and society--English-speaking countries.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngũgi 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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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

4. Testimony and the Crisis of the Juridical Order in Ngũgi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780823267835

0823267830

OCLC:

973831139