Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking
Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics
from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and
value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other
forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in
society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical
developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the
explosion and radical extension of human rights discourse; renewed
cultural interest in perpetrators of violence alongside the
phenomenal commercial success of victim testimony (in the form of
misery memoirs); and the emergence of disciplinary interest in
genocide, terror, and other violent atrocities. These issues are
necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain,
and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures,
and in postcolonial contexts. At the volume's core is an
interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of
witnessing as it plays out through a 'new' Europe, post-9/11 US,
war-torn Africa, and in countless refugee and detention centers,
and as it is worked out by lawyers, journalists, medics, and
novelists. The collection draws together an international range of
case-studies, including discussion of the former Yugoslavia, Gaza,
and Rwanda, and encompasses a cross-disciplinary set of texts,
novels, plays, testimonial writing, and hybrid testimonies. The
volume situates itself at the cutting-edge of debate and as such
brings together the leading thinkers in the field, requiring that
each address the future, anticipating and setting the future terms
of debate on the importance of testimony.
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