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Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature
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Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto.
ISBN
9780823267811
0823267814
9780823267828
0823267822
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
x, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2016
Bibliography
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 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.
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