Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers

ISBN-13: 9783319749648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Alexandra S. Moore; Elizabeth Swanson

Opis

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

Recenzje

"I would strongly recommend this book to anyone working in the field of life narrative. ... I am very glad that I did, because it forced me to shift my understanding of the work that I do-for the better, I hope."  (Annie Pohlman, Biography, Vol. 42 (4), 2019)

Spis treści

Part I Torture in Context and Translation 

1 Torture: The Catastrophe of a Bond 

Carlos Alberto Arestivo

2 Torture in an Historical Context: Notes from Sudan 

Mohamed Elgadi

3 The Unspeakable Agony of Inflicted Pain: Torture,

Betrayal, Redress 

Robert Francis Garcia

4 Translating Trauma, Witnessing Survival 

Laurie Ball Cooper

Part II Witnessing Torture and Recovery: Survivors, Health

Professionals, Institutions 

5 The Role of Health Professionals in Torture Treatment

Linda A. Piwowarczyk

6 Assessing the Treatment of Torture: Balancing

Quantifiable with Intangible Metrics 

Orlando P. Tizon

7 The Little Red Cabinet of Tears: The Impact upon

Treatment Providers of Bearing Witness to Torture 

Judy B. Okawa

8 Beyond Institutional Betrayal: When the Professional Is

Personal 111

Ellen Gerrity

Part III Disappearance and Torture, Redress and

Representation 

9 Everardo and the CIA’s Long-Term Torture Practices 

Jennifer Harbury

10 Survivors and the Origin of the Convention

for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced

Disappearance 

Patricio Rice

11 The Tenacity of Memory: Art in the Aftermath

of Atrocity 

Claudia Bernardi

12 Teaching about Torture, or, Reading between the Lines

in the Humanities 

Madelaine Hron

13 Legal Appeal: Habeas Lawyers Narrate Guantánamo Life

Terri Tomsky

14 Did We Survive Torture? 

Mansoor Adayfi

Epilogue: From Solitude to Solidarity 

Index 

O autorze

Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University, USA. Her publications include Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture (2015) and Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family (2004). She has also co-edited several volumes and a special journal issue: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (with Sophia A. McClennen, 2015); Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (with Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, 2015); Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (with Sunka Simon, 2015); Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature (with Goldberg, 2011), and Human Rights and Cultural Forms, special issue of College Literature (with Goldberg and Greg Mullins, 2013).

Elizabeth Swanson is Professor of English at Babson College, USA, and has published widely on the subject of literature and human rights. Author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (2007), she is co-editor, with Alexandra Schultheis Moore, of Theoretical Perspectives on Literature and Human Rights (2011) and Options for Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (2015), and with James Brewer Stewart of Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Slavery Past and Present (2018). She has been a human rights activist since age 14, when she wrote her first letter for Amnesty International, and has for the past ten years worked with survivors of sex trafficking and gender-based violence in southeast Asia to create dignified, sustainable, life and livelihood solutions.