Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature

by Nicole M Rizzuto

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823267814
• ISBN13: 9780823267811
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 6.2"