LEADER 04444nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910826858303321 005 20211005220323.0 010 $a0-8232-4228-5 010 $a0-8232-4226-9 010 $a0-8232-4227-7 010 $a0-8232-4622-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823242276 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065530 035 $a(EBL)1274306 035 $a(OCoLC)854974524 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601820 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420119 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601820 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10566591 035 $a(PQKB)10649589 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107464 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239708 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5188687 035 $a(OCoLC)821726239 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14126 035 $a(DE-B1597)555162 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823242276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1274306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239708 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10586766 035 $a(OCoLC)923763927 035 $a(OCoLC)1024265606 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704477 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704477 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818169 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065530 100 $a20120207d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSpeaking about torture$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Julie A. Carlson and Elisabeth Weber 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8232-4225-0 311 $a0-8232-4224-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. America tortures -- pt. 2. Singularities of witness -- pt. 3. Graphic assaults, sensory overload -- pt. 4. Declassifying writing. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aTorture in literature 606 $aTorture in mass media 610 $aAbu Ghraib. 610 $aGuantánamo. 610 $aTorture. 610 $acensorship. 610 $arepresentation. 610 $atrauma. 610 $awitnessing. 615 0$aTorture in literature. 615 0$aTorture in mass media. 676 $a809/.93355 701 $aCarlson$b Julie Ann$f1955-$01602808 701 $aWeber$b Elisabeth$f1959-$0403042 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826858303321 996 $aSpeaking about torture$93926875 997 $aUNINA