02924nam 2200613 a 450 991080686110332120200520144314.00-8232-4867-4(CKB)2670000000233615(EBL)3239686(SSID)ssj0000675238(PQKBManifestationID)11403339(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675238(PQKBWorkID)10669473(PQKB)10592316(MiAaPQ)EBC3239686(OCoLC)607680571(MdBmJHUP)muse15094(Au-PeEL)EBL3239686(CaPaEBR)ebr10586744(OCoLC)923763825(EXLCZ)99267000000023361520050308d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen witnessing terror testimony and the cultural politics of human rights /Anne Cubilie1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20051 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2434-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Witness and testimony : ethics, trauma, speech, and paradox -- "The erotics of violence" : performing violence in The balcony and The conduct of life -- Testimonial and surviving : gender and the crisis of witnessing -- State terror and the ethical witness -- Testimonial, trauma, and the crises of discourse in Bosnia -- Grounded ethics : testimonial witnessing from rural Afghanistan to the United States.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, Anne Cubili+ uses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personal witness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists, and others who study the space between victim and survivor, ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female. This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefully how ethical witnessing reformulates the language of human rights and enhances its ability to intervene against violence and oppression.Reportage literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAtrocities in literatureWomen and warState-sponsored terrorismReportage literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Atrocities in literature.Women and war.State-sponsored terrorism.303.48/5Cubilie Anne1611741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806861103321Women witnessing terror3940130UNINA