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Insurgent Testimonies : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature /

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Main Author: Rizzuto, Nicole M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Languages & Literatures.
English.
English Literature.
War in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Literature and society.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
English literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Litterature et societe > Anglophonie.
Nationalisme et litterature > Anglophonie.
Justice > Administration, dans la litterature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Guerre dans la litterature.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Litterature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > English-speaking countries.
Nationalism and literature > English-speaking countries.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.

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