African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- Burroughs1
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315208664
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315208664
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The Burden of Proof utilises extensive archival research in Britain, mainland Europe, and the USA, as well as Burroughs's participation as co-investigator in an EU-funded research network on the Congo Free State. Employing postcolonial literary approaches to questions of imperialism, humanitarianism, trauma, witnessing, and the recovery of archives, this book examines the conditions in which colonised peoples were able to speak about their subjection in a violent regime, and those in which attempts at testimony were thwarted. It reinstates African agency in a field of scholarship previously dominated by European perspectives.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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