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.
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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