Nicole M. Rizzuto Livres

Focusing on the theme of testimony, the book explores how disruptions to imperial and national power influence the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature. By analyzing the works of notable authors such as Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, it highlights the legal and societal responses to these disruptions, revealing the complex interplay between literature and the historical context of power dynamics.

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.