TY - BOOK AU - Rizzuto,Nicole M. ED - Project Muse. TI - Insurgent Testimonies : : Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / T2 - Knowledge Unlatched SN - 9780823267842 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Languages & Literatures KW - hilcc KW - English KW - English Literature KW - War in literature KW - fast KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Literature and society KW - Justice, Administration of, in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - English literature KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Human Rights KW - bisacsh KW - Litterature et societe KW - Anglophonie KW - Nationalisme et litterature KW - Justice KW - Administration, dans la litterature KW - Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature KW - Guerre dans la litterature KW - Imperialisme dans la litterature KW - Litterature du Commonwealth (anglaise) KW - Histoire et critique KW - Litterature anglaise KW - 20e siecle KW - English-speaking countries KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - 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 Lisser and V.S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong'o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in trauma and memory studies and invite us to reassess divisions and classifications in literary studies that generate such categories as modernist, colonial, postcolonial, national, and world literatures. Departing from tenets of modernist studies and from methods in the field of trauma and memory studies, Rizzuto contends that acute as well as chronic disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and extra-legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of literatures from the modernist, colonial, and postcolonial periods UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/43619/ ER -