| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-360) and index. |
| Contents |
For the humanities / Julie A. Carlson and Elisabeth Weber -- An assault on truth: a chronology of torture, deception, and denial / Lisa Hajjar -- In the Minotaur's labyrinth: psychological torture, public forgetting, and contested history / Alfred W. McCoy -- Torture and society / Reinhold Görling -- What Nazi crimes against humanity can tell us about torture today / Susan Derwin -- "Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism": reading Jean Améry today / Elisabeth Weber -- "What did the corpse want?" torture in poetry / Sinan Antoon -- Painting against torture / John Nava -- Torture and representation: the art of Détournement / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Waterboarding: political and sacred torture / Stephen F. Eisenman -- Damnatio Memoriae / Hamid Dabashi -- Rituals of hegemonic masculinity: cinema, torture, and the Middle East / Viola Shafik -- Music and torture: the stigmata of sound and sense / Peter Szendy -- The language of feeling made into a weapon: music as an instrument of torture / Christian Grüny -- Romantic poet legislators: an end of torture / Julie A. Carlson -- The fine details: torture and the social order / Darieck Scott -- Reasonable torture, or the sanctities / Colin Dayan -- John Yoo, the torture memos, and Ward Churchill: exploring the outer limits of academic freedom / Richard Falk. |
| Subject |
Torture in literature.
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Torture in mass media.
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| Added Author |
Carlson, Julie Ann, 1955-
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Weber, Elisabeth, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9780823242245 cloth alkaline paper |
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0823242242 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780823242252 paperback alkaline paper |
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0823242250 paperback alkaline paper |
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