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Witness Literature

Witness Literature

Culture, Memory and Contested Truths

by Minoli Salgado
Hardback
Publication Date: 20/02/2025

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The first critical study to explore the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony, Witness Literature from the Border examines writing from three sites of exceptional violence and fluid justice: the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence in Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and the UK. Drawing on the intersecting fields of literary analysis, biopolitics, border aesthetics and testimony studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; takes up the call to expand Western understanding of the normatively human by focusing on work that bears witness from sites of compromised belonging; and shows how witness literature by migrant subjects marks an important intervention in Western readings of trauma.

Ambitious in cultural and conceptual reach, Witness Literature from the Border invokes a wide range of texts from within the nations studied and from diasporic writers. These include: eye witness accounts and survivor stories gathered in Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields, Voices of Peace and Still Counting the Dead; memoirs and autobiographies like Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father, Niromi de Soyza's Tamil Tigress and Ajith Boyagoda's memoir as told to Sunila Galappatti in A Long Watch; the graphic novel, Vanni; novels of diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje's and Anuk Arudpragasam; the posthumously published editorial of Lasantha Wickrematunge, an assassinated writer who anticipated his death; fabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events Forbidden Love by Norma Khouri's and Lene Wold's Inside an Honour Killing; and such works as Elif Shafak's Honour, Salman Rushdie's Shame and Shalimar the Clown, Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter and Francois Bizot's The Gate. Offering a compelling and surprising analysis of the representation of life under the threat, Minoli Salgado exposes how the mixed cultural allegiances of the border witness marks a double agency that challenges multiple orthodoxies and marks storytelling as significant in mapping new moral communities.

ISBN:
9781350318854
9781350318854
Category:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
20-02-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
233.93x155.96x25.4mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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