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Speaking about Torture (Hardcover, New)
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This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent
issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts
and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again
compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this
volume speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the
surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture
among Americans, including academics and the media-entertainment
complex. Speaking about Torture also claims that the concepts and
techniques practiced in the humanities have a special contribution
to make to this debate, going beyond what is usually deemed a
matter of policy for experts in government and the social sciences.
It contends that the way one speaks about torture-including that
one speaks about it-is key to comprehending, legislating, and
eradicating torture. That is, we cannot discuss torture without
taking into account the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity,
and language that the humanities theorize and that the experience
of torture perpetuates. Such accounts are crucial to framing the
silencing and demonizing that accompany the practice and
representation of torture. Written by scholars in literary
analysis, philosophy, history, film and media studies, musicology,
and art history working in the United States, Europe, and the
Middle East, the essays in this volume speak from a conviction that
torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain
security. They engage in various ways with the limits that torture
imposes on language, on subjects and community, and on governmental
officials, while also confronting the complicity of artists and
humanists in torture through their silence, forms of silencing, and
classic means of representation. Acknowledging this history is
central to the volume's advocacy of speaking about torture through
the forms of witness offered and summoned by the humanities.
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