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Witnessing Torture Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

15.08.2018

Herausgeber

Alexandra S. Moore + weitere

Verlag

Springer

Seitenzahl

248

Maße (L/B/H)

21/14,8/1,6 cm

Gewicht

376 g

Auflage

1st ed. 2018

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-319-74964-8

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“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)

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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.

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

15.08.2018

Herausgeber

Verlag

Springer

Seitenzahl

248

Maße (L/B/H)

21/14,8/1,6 cm

Gewicht

376 g

Auflage

1st ed. 2018

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-319-74964-8

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  • 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