The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi

ISBN-13: 9783031376559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

 Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath al-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government. 

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 Contents

Editor’s Introduction

The Guantánamo Artwork of Moath al-Alwi: Art as Expression, Witness, Evidence

Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth Swanson

Chapter 1

Artmaking at Guantánamo: A Ship Expresses Rescue

Moath al-Alwi

Chapter 2

My Brother, the Artist

Mansoor Adayfi

Chapter 3

APPROVED BY U.S. FORCES: Showing Art from Guantánamo

Erin L. Thompson

Chapter 4

From Wasting Away to a Way with Waste: The Visibility of Moath al-Alwi's Hunger and Sculpture

Joshua O. Reno

Chapter 5

Ships of Scraps: Moath al-Alwi’s Model Ships in Islamic Art and Prison Histories    

Mira Rai Waits

Chapter 6

Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi’s Ships

Belinda Walzer

Chapter 7

A Sea without a Shore: Building an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay

Safiyah Rochelle

Chapter 8

Assemblage by Necessity: The Maritime Sculpture of Moath al-Alwi

Gail Rothschild

 

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Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University. 

Elizabeth Swanson is Professor of  Literature and Human Rights at Babson College.

Blurb

 Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath al-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government. 

Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University. 

Elizabeth Swanson is Professor of  Literature and Human Rights at Babson College.