{"product_id":"9781350318908","title":"Witness Literature Culture, Memory and Contested Truths","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWitness Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCulture, Memory and Contested Truths\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMinoli Salgado\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiction \/ World Literature \/ Asia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/Türkiye, the UK and beyond. Drawing on literary analysis, biopolitics, testimony studies, trauma theory and postcolonial studies, it 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; showing how witness literature by migrant subjects marks an important intervention in Western readings of trauma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious in cultural and conceptual reach, \u003ci\u003eWitness Literature \u003c\/i\u003einvokes a range of texts from within the nations studied and diasporic writers: eyewitness accounts and survivor stories gathered in \u003ci\u003eChildren of Cambodia's Killing Fields; \u003c\/i\u003ememoirs and autobiographies like François Bizot's \u003ci\u003eThe Gate \u003c\/i\u003eand Loung Ung's \u003ci\u003eFirst They Killed My Father\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003eSanam Maher's biography of the internet star Qandeel Baloch; pseudonymous work that reconfigures the authorising identity of the witness;  novels by diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Vaddey Ratner and Anuk Arudpragasam\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003efabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events including Shehan Karunatilaka's \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350318908\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11.36\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936348405900,"sku":"9781350318908","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_887d4f5c-720c-4cf5-90e2-bc04a70b9b3c.jpg?v=1786018318","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350318908","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}