Speaking about Torture / / ed. by Elisabeth Weber, Julie A. Carlson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Antoon, Sinan,; Carlson, Julie A.,; Dayan, Colin,; Derwin, Susan,; Eisenman, Stephen F.,; Falk, Richard,; Görling, Reinhold,; Hajjar, Lisa,; McCoy, Alfred W.,; Nava, John,; Scott, Darieck,; Solomon-Godeau, Abigail,; Weber, Elisabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Carlson, Julie A.,; Weber, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

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