Women witnessing terror : testimony and the cultural politics of human rights / / Anne Cubilie

• Autore: Cubilie Anne
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/5
• Soggetto topico: Reportage literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Atrocities in literature; Women and war; State-sponsored terrorism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women witnessing terror
• ISBN: 0-8232-4867-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806861103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II