Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Guilt and Shame Current Debates in Affect Studies; The current debate: shame and anti-intentionalism; Leys and Sedgwick: points of convergence, psychoanalysis and affect theory; Guilt and shame about the past; 2 Witnessing Fever; Witnessing: from oral testimony to watching the news; Identification and non-identification; 3 Shame and the Convict Stain Anne Ferran's Lost to Worlds; What remains: the heritage of convict women

Lost to Worlds : shame, guilt and reparationAftermath images and witnessing; 4 Fiona Pardington Colonialism and Repair in the Southern Seas; Colonialism, postcolonialism and voyages to the Southern Seas; Presence, occluded vision and witnessing; Life aesthetics, mortuary aesthetics: reparation and the redemption of damaged life; 5 Rosângela Rennó' Little Stories of the Downtrodden and the Vanquished'; Immemorial : Brasília, capital of hope, cruel utopia; Corpo da Alma: pictures of people holding pictures; 6 Our Dark Side Milagros de la Torre's The Lost Steps

The testimony of objects: war and crime in a time of fearDark enlightenment: perversion, shame, shock; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index