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Speaking about torture /
This collection of essays take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. The book speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture among Americans.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: America Tortures. An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception, and Denial
- In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History
- Part 2: Singularities of Witness. Torture and Society
- What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today
- "Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism": Reading Jean Améry Today
- "What Did the Corpse Want?" Torture in Poetry
- Part 3: Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload. Painting Against Torture
- Torture and Representation: The Art of Détournement
- Waterboarding: Political and Sacred Torture
- Damnatio Memoriae
- Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East
- Music and Torture: The Stigmata of Sound and Sense
- The Language of Feeling Made into a Weapon: Music as an Instrument of Torture
- Part 4: Declassifying Writing
- Romantic Poet Legislators: An End of Torture
- The Fine Details: Torture and the Social Order
- Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities
- John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom.