Witness Literature

A study of the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony, this book examines writing from the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence. Drawing on literary analysis, biopolitics, border aesthetics and testimony studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; it 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 intervention in Western readings of trauma"- Provided by publisher.