Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rizzuto, Nicole M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism. Imperialism in literature. War in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Justice, Administration of, in literature. Nationalism and literature > English-speaking countries. Literature and society > English-speaking countries. Commonwealth literature (English) English literature. Literature and society. Nationalism and literature. English-speaking countries. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.