Sale!

Speaking about Torture 1st Edition Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber

Name: Speaking about Torture 1st Edition Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber
SKU: EB-51384900
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $25.00.

Speaking about Torture 1st Edition Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber

Edition: 1

File Details: EPUB, 3.02 MB

Year: 2012

Language: english

SKU: EB-51384900 Category: Uncategorized Tags: 0823242250, 9780823242252, Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber, Torture

Description

Speaking about Torture 1st Edition Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN: 0823242250,

Product details:

• ISBN 10:0823242250
• ISBN 13:9780823242252
• Author(s): Julie A Carlson Elisabeth Weber

This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this volume speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture among Americans, including academics and the media–entertainment complex. Speaking about Torture also claims that the concepts and techniques practiced in the humanities have a special contribution to make to this debate, going beyond what is usually deemed a matter of policy for experts in government and the social sciences. It contends that the way one speaks about torture―including that one speaks about it―is key to comprehending, legislating, and eradicating torture. That is, we cannot discuss torture without taking into account the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that the experience of torture perpetuates. Such accounts are crucial to framing the silencing and demonizing that accompany the practice and representation of torture.

Table contents:

Part One: America Tortures
1. An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception, and Denial
2. In the Minotaur’s Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History
Part Two: Singularities of Witness
3. Torture and Society
4. What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today
5. “Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism”: Reading Jean Améry Today
6. “What Did the Corpse Want?” Torture in Poetry
Part Three: Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload
7. Painting Against Torture
8. Torture and Representation: The Art of Détournement
9. Waterboarding: Political and Sacred Torture
10. Damnatio Memoriae
11. Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East
12. Music and Torture: The Stigmata of Sound and Sense
13. The Language of Feeling Made into a Weapon: Music as an Instrument of Torture
Part Four: Declassifying Writing
14. Romantic Poet Legislators: An End of Torture
15. The Fine Details: Torture and the Social Order
16. Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities
17. John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom