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

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During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain's. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H.G. de Li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rizzuto, Nicole M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Languages & Literatures.
English.
English Literature.
War in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Literature and society.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
English literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Litterature et societe > Anglophonie.
Nationalisme et litterature > Anglophonie.
Justice > Administration, dans la litterature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Guerre dans la litterature.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Litterature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > English-speaking countries.
Nationalism and literature > English-speaking countries.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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