Insurgent TestimoniesDuring the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britains. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian born Joseph Conrad, Anglo Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiongo testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ways that question premises underlying approaches in