02745nam 2200565 450 99647897160331620230807212013.00-8232-6784-9(CKB)3710000000747367(EBL)4705927(MiAaPQ)EBC4705927(EXLCZ)99371000000074736720161013h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierInsurgent testimonies witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature /Nicole M. RizzutoNew York :Fordham University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (285 p.)Includes index.Cover; 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; Testimony and the Crisis of the Juridical Order in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; WThis book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi 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.English literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCommonwealth literatureHistory and criticismImperialism in literatureWar in literaturePsychic trauma in literatureJustice, Administration of, in literatureNationalism and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesLiterature and societyEnglish-speaking countriesEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Commonwealth literatureHistory and criticism.Imperialism in literature.War in literature.Psychic trauma in literature.Justice, Administration of, in literature.Nationalism and literatureLiterature and society820.90091Rizzuto Nicole M. 987773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996478971603316Insurgent Testimonies2258344UNISA