Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare.

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Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them. Beginning with an analysis of the ways in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weber, Elisabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2017.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in literature.
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture in literature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Torture dans la littérature.
War crimes.
Psychic trauma in literature
Torture in literature
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
Torture, drone warfare, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, human rights
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : shocks of recognition
  • Torture was the essence of National-Socialism : reading Jean Amery Today
  • Living-with-torture-together
  • Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
  • Guantánamo poems
  • Ages of cruelty : Jacques Derrida, Fethi Benslama, and their challenges to psychoanalysis
  • Kill boxes : Kafka's beetles, drones
  • Afterword / by Richard Falk.

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