Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto

Author:: Rizzuto, Nicole M.
Published:: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Copyright Date:: ©2015
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: x, 272 pages ; 23 cm

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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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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9780823267811 hardcover alkaline paper
0823267814 hardcover alkaline paper
9780823267828 paperback alkaline paper
0823267822 paperback alkaline paper

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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