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Gestures of Testimony - Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature (Hardcover)
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Gestures of Testimony - Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature (Hardcover)
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After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned
torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of
sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced
into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for
literature: torturous pain and its traumatic aftermath have long
been held to destroy language, shatter experience, and refuse
representation. Challenging accepted thinking, Gestures of
Testimony asks how literature might bear witness to the tortures of
a war waged against fear itself. Bringing the vibrant field of
affect theory to bear on theories of torture and power, Richardson
adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show how testimony founded
in affect can bear witness to torture and its traumas. Grounded in
provocative readings of poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of
interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, the Bush
Administration's Torture Memos, and fiction by George Orwell, Franz
Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels, and Janette Turner Hospital,
Michael Richardson traces the workings of affect, biopower, and
aesthetics to re-think literary testimony. Gestures of Testimony
gives shape to a mode of affective witnessing, a reaching beyond
the page in the writing of torture that reveals violent trauma -
even as it embodies its veiling.
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