Insurgent Testimonies :
Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature /
Nicole Rizzuto.

Description

Main Author

Rizzuto, Nicole

Language(s)

English

Published

©2016.
London : Knowledge Unlatched, c2016.
New York : Fordham University Press, c2016.

Subjects

Politics.
Literature.
War in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Nationalism and literature > Nationalism and literature / English-speaking countries.
Literature and society.
Literature and society > Literature and society / English-speaking countries.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
English literature.
English literature > English literature / 20th century > English literature / 20th century / History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Commonwealth literature (English) > Commonwealth literature (English) / History and criticism.

Summary

This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngũgi 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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Note

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Physical Description

1 online resource : illustrations, figures, tables.

ISBN

9780823267811 (print-ISBN)

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