Title:
Insurgent testimonies : witnessing colonial trauma in modern and Anglophone literature / Nicole M. Rizzuto.
ISBN:
9780823267835
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Publication Information:
New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]
©2015
Physical Description:
1 online resource
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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 Nguugi wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat.
Summary:
Literary examination of various authors' works that reveal the effects of colonial trauma on indigenous populations.
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