Speaking about Torture / ed. by Elisabeth Weber, Julie A. Carlson.
Antoon, Sinan, contributor.; Carlson, Julie A., contributor.; Carlson, Julie A., editor.; Dayan, Colin, contributor.; Derwin, Susan, contributor.; Eisenman, Stephen F., contributor.; Falk, Richard, contributor.; Görling, Reinhold, contributor.; Hajjar, Lisa, contributor.; McCoy, Alfred W., contributor.; Nava, John, contributor.; Scott, Darieck, contributor.; Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, contributor.; Weber, Elisabeth, contributor.; Weber, Elisabeth, editor.
2012
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Title Speaking about Torture / ed. by Elisabeth Weber, Julie A. Carlson.
ISBN 9780823242276
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242276
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823242276 doi
Call Number PN56.T62 S64 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.9335
Summary 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.
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Added Author Antoon, Sinan, contributor.
Carlson, Julie A., contributor.
Carlson, Julie A., editor.
Dayan, Colin, contributor.
Derwin, Susan, contributor.
Eisenman, Stephen F., contributor.
Falk, Richard, contributor.
Görling, Reinhold, contributor.
Hajjar, Lisa, contributor.
McCoy, Alfred W., contributor.
Nava, John, contributor.
Scott, Darieck, contributor.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, contributor.
Weber, Elisabeth, contributor.
Weber, Elisabeth, editor.
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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

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