UID:
edoccha_9960782128402883
Format:
1 online resource (285 p.)
ISBN:
0-8232-6784-9
Content:
This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi 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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Challenging Ruptures: Testimonial Insurgencies, Spectral Witnesses; 1. Compelled Confessions and Forced Attachments in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes and "Poland Revisited"; 2. Traumas of Nation and Narrative: Legal and Literary Witnessing in Rebecca West's Wartime Writings; 3. Vindicating the Law: H. G. de Lisser, V. S. Reid, and the Morant Bay Rebellion; Testimony and the Crisis of the Juridical Order in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Language:
English
