LEADER 04662nam 22007691 450 001 9910511487503321 005 20160223182029.0 010 $a1-5013-1581-1 010 $a1-5013-1583-8 010 $a1-5013-1582-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501315831 035 $a(CKB)3710000000679433 035 $a(EBL)4528278 035 $a(OCoLC)940958378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001668068 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16456617 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001668068 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14916651 035 $a(PQKB)11180730 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4528278 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09259866 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000679433 100 $a20160427d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGestures of testimony $etorture, trauma, and affect in literature /$fMichael Richardson 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5013-3940-0 311 $a1-5013-1580-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gesturing the Unrepresentable -- Chapter 1: Tortured Bodies -- Chapter 2: Reading Torture -- Chapter 3: Seeing Torture -- Chapter 4: Writing Trauma -- Chapter 5: Witnessing and the Poetics of Trauma -- Chapter 6: Writing Torturous Affect -- Conclusion: Speaking Beyond Words -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: torturous pain and its traumatic aftermath have long been held to destroy language, shatter experience, and refuse representation. Challenging accepted thinking, Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature asks how literature might bear witness to the tortures of a war waged against fear itself. Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of torture and power, Richardson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness to torture and its traumas. Grounded in provocative readings of fiction by George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels and Janette Turner Hospital, poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, and the Torture Memos of the Bush Administration, the analysis traverses politics, law and cinema to re-think literary testimony. Drawing upon some of the most influential thinkers of recent times on power, affect, trauma and torture, the book does more than critique culture and literature: it proposes new practices of literary witnessing. Gestures of Testimony gives shape to a mode of gestural testimony, a reaching beyond the page in the writing of torture in fiction that reveals the shape, depth and intensity of violent trauma-even as it embodies its veiling."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 330 $a"Brings together theories of affect, trauma and power to propose new practices of bearing literary witness to the torture of the war on terror"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 517 3 $aTorture, trauma, and affect in literature 606 $aAffect (Psychology) in literature 606 $aAffect (Psychology) in motion pictures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aPsychic trauma in motion pictures 606 $aTorture in literature 606 $aTorture in motion pictures 606 $aTorture$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $2Literary theory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAffect (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aAffect (Psychology) in motion pictures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in motion pictures. 615 0$aTorture in literature. 615 0$aTorture in motion pictures. 615 0$aTorture$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a809/.933552 700 $aRichardson$b Michael$f1980- ,$01066748 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511487503321 996 $aGestures of testimony$92549887 997 $aUNINA