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024 7 _a10.36019/9781684483143
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781684483143
035 _a(DE-B1597)590364
035 _a(OCoLC)1256447052
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aStepakoff, Shanee
_eautore
245 1 0 _aTestimony :
_bFound Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone /
_cShanee Stepakoff.
264 1 _aLewisburg, PA :
_bBucknell University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (110 p.)
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490 0 _aThe Griot Project Book Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tForeword --
_tNotes on the Text --
_tTestimony --
_tIntroduction: --
_tThe Amputee’s Mother --
_tThe Child Soldier --
_tThe Grieving Father --
_tThe Rape Survivor --
_tThe Blinded Farmer --
_tThe Widower --
_tThe Gravedigger --
_tThe Beggar --
_tThe Victim of War --
_tFurther Resources --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aWar crime trials
_zSierra Leone
_vPoetry.
650 7 _aPOETRY / General.
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653 _atransitional justice, human rights, human rights violations, human rights abuses, hybrid writing, found poetry, docu-poems, docu-poetry, Liberia, West African, contemporary African history, testimony, Testimonies, trauma studies, trauma in literature, war-crimes tribunal, war-crimes trials, war-crimes courts, tribunals, mass atrocity, torture survivors, Truth and Reconciliation, TRC, truth commission, war-crimes witnesses, war-crimes survivors, collective trauma, victims of war, transnational, justice, transnational justice, global, human rights, history, criminal, court, legal, truth, restitution, trauma, trauma survivors, gender-based violence, war-related vesico-vaginal fistula, child soldiers, Sierra Leone, child combatants, enthnopolitical conflict, ethnopolitical violence, ethnic violence, political violence, genocide, Wartime, war amputees, bearing witness.
700 1 _aCole, Ernest D.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9781684483143
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684483143
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