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000717845 1001_ $$aScarry, Elaine.
000717845 24514 $$aThe body in pain :$$bthe making and unmaking of the world /$$cElaine Scarry.
000717845 250__ $$aOxford University Press pbk.
000717845 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c1987, c1985.
000717845 300__ $$avii, 385 pages ;$$c21 cm.
000717845 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000717845 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000717845 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000717845 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000717845 5050_ $$aIntroduction ---- Part One. Unmaking. 1. Structure of torture : the conversion of real pain into the fiction power --- 2.  The structure of war : the juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues ---- Part Two. Making. 3. Pain and imaging --- 4. The structure of belief and its modulation into material making : body and voice in the Judeo-Christian scriptures and the writings of Marx --- 5. The interior structure of the artifact.
000717845 520__ $$aPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Henry Kissinger. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain difficult to describe in words, it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme cases to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry goes on to analyse the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of warfare and torture, and she demonstrates how political regimes use the power of physical pain to attack and break down the sufferer's sense of self. Finally she turns to examples of artistic and cultural activity; actions achieved in the face of pain and difficulty.
000717845 650_0 $$aPain.
000717845 650_0 $$aWar.
000717845 650_0 $$aTorture.
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