Women Witnessing Terror : : Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights /

Women Witnessing Terror : : Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights / / Anne Cubilie.

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A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, including genocide, state terror, ethnic cleansing, and war, Anne Cubilié uses survivor testimo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Cubilie, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1 Witness and Testimony: Ethics, Trauma, Speech, and Paradox
  • CHAPTER 2 ‘‘The Erotics of Violence’’: Performing Violence in The Balcony and The Conduct of Life
  • CHAPTER 3 Testimonial and Surviving: Gender and the Crisis of Witnessing
  • CHAPTER 4 State Terror and the Ethical Witness
  • CHAPTER 5 Testimonial, Trauma, and the Crises of Discourse in Bosnia
  • CHAPTER 6 Grounded Ethics: Testimonial Witnessing from Rural Afghanistan to the United States
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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