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Author:

Rizzuto, Nicole M., author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 272 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English)--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Ng¿♭g♯♭ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.

ISBN:

0823267814
9780823267811
0823267822
9780823267828

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905419428

LCCN:

2015006026

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)