@article{1477550,
      recid = {1477550},
      author = {Antoon, Sinan,  and Carlson, Julie A.,  and Carlson, Julie  A.,  and Dayan, Colin,  and Derwin, Susan,  and Eisenman,  Stephen F.,  and Falk, Richard,  and Görling, Reinhold,   and Hajjar, Lisa,  and McCoy, Alfred W.,  and Nava, John,   and Scott, Darieck,  and Solomon-Godeau, Abigail,  and  Weber, Elisabeth,  and Weber, Elisabeth, },
      title = {Speaking about Torture /},
      pages = {1 online resource (384 p.)},
      abstract = {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.Written by scholars in literary analysis,  philosophy, history, film and media studies, musicology,  and art history working in the United States, Europe, and  the Middle East, the essays in this volume speak from a  conviction that torture does not work to elicit truth,  secure justice, or maintain security. They engage in  various ways with the limits that torture imposes on  language, on subjects and community, and on governmental  officials, while also confronting the complicity of artists  and humanists in torture through their silence, forms of  silencing, and classic means of representation.  Acknowledging this history is central to the volume's  advocacy of speaking about torture through the forms of  witness offered and summoned by the humanities.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477550},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242276},
}