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Rizzuto, Nicole M.

Insurgent Testimonies Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto. - First edition. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780823267842

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
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--History and criticism.--20th century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR478.I53 / R59 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/0091