TY - BOOK ID - 19002 TI - Insurgent Testimonies AU - Rizzuto, Nicole PY - 2016 SN - 9780823274857 9780823267811 DB - DOAB KW - literature KW - commonwealth literature (english) history and criticism KW - war in literature KW - politics KW - literature and society$xenglish-speaking countries KW - nationalism and literature english-speaking countries KW - nationalism and literature KW - imperialism in literature KW - english literature KW - literature and society KW - psychic trauma in literature KW - justice, administration of, in literature KW - english literature 20th century history and criticism KW - commonwealth literature (english) UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:19002 AB - 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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. ER -