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Women Witnessing Terror : Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights / Anne Cubilie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823224357
  • 9780823293582
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 Witness and Testimony: Ethics, Trauma, Speech, and Paradox -- CHAPTER 2 ‘‘The Erotics of Violence’’: Performing Violence in The Balcony and The Conduct of Life -- CHAPTER 3 Testimonial and Surviving: Gender and the Crisis of Witnessing -- CHAPTER 4 State Terror and the Ethical Witness -- CHAPTER 5 Testimonial, Trauma, and the Crises of Discourse in Bosnia -- CHAPTER 6 Grounded Ethics: Testimonial Witnessing from Rural Afghanistan to the United States -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, including genocide, state terror, ethnic cleansing, and war, Anne Cubilié uses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personal witness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists, and others who study the space between victim and survivor, ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female. This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefully how ethical witnessing—listening to the voices of survivors— reformulates the language of human rights and enhances its ability to intervene against violence and oppression.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 Witness and Testimony: Ethics, Trauma, Speech, and Paradox -- CHAPTER 2 ‘‘The Erotics of Violence’’: Performing Violence in The Balcony and The Conduct of Life -- CHAPTER 3 Testimonial and Surviving: Gender and the Crisis of Witnessing -- CHAPTER 4 State Terror and the Ethical Witness -- CHAPTER 5 Testimonial, Trauma, and the Crises of Discourse in Bosnia -- CHAPTER 6 Grounded Ethics: Testimonial Witnessing from Rural Afghanistan to the United States -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, including genocide, state terror, ethnic cleansing, and war, Anne Cubilié uses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personal witness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists, and others who study the space between victim and survivor, ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female. This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefully how ethical witnessing—listening to the voices of survivors— reformulates the language of human rights and enhances its ability to intervene against violence and oppression.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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