{"product_id":"witness-literature-culture-memory-and-contested-truths-9781350318854","title":"Witness Literature: Culture, Memory and Contested Truths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first critical monograph to explore and delineate\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony from the Global South.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitness Literature \u003c\/i\u003eexamines 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\/T?rkiye, the UK and beyond. Drawing on the intersecting fields of literary analysis, biopolitics, testimony studies, trauma theory and postcolonial 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmbitious in cultural and conceptual reach, \u003ci\u003eWitness Literature \u003c\/i\u003einvokes a wide range of texts from within the nations studied and from diasporic writers. These include: eyewitness accounts and survivor stories gathered in \u003ci\u003eChildren of Cambodia's Killing Fields; \u003c\/i\u003ememoirs and autobiographies like Fran?ois Bizot's \u003ci\u003eThe Gate, \u003c\/i\u003e Loung Ung's \u003ci\u003eFirst They Killed My Father\u003c\/i\u003e and Ajith Boyagoda's re-told memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Long Watch; \u003c\/i\u003eSanam Maher's biography of the internet star Qandeel Baloch that exposes the truth technologies of the media; pseudonymous work that reconfigures the authorising identity of the witness; novels by diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Vaddey Ratner, Madeleine Thien and Anuk Arudpragasam\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003ethe posthumously published editorial of an assassinated journalist who anticipated his death\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003efabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events including Shehan Karunatilaka's phantasmagoric novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida\u003c\/i\u003e; and such works as Elif Shafak's \u003ci\u003eHonour\u003c\/i\u003e, Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eShame \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Shalimar the Clown.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering 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 mark a double agency that challenges multiple orthodoxies and shows how testimonial work from the Global South maps new moral communities by opening up alternative ways of reading truth, subjectivity, healing and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinoli Salgado\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of International Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her previous publications include the critical monograph, \u003ci\u003eWriting Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), the novel, \u003ci\u003eA Little Dust on the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and a book of narrative non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eTwelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199365447954,"sku":"9781350318854","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ce9599c-3045-4f38-8938-2f8b6404847b.jpg?v=1744876067","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/witness-literature-culture-memory-and-contested-truths-9781350318854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}