EAN: 9783319749648

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LIFE WRITING WITNESSING T...

This book demonstrates a new  interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that
situates torture firmly within its socio-political context  as opposed to extending the long
line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling the
rhetorical divide that typically separates survivors' suffering from human rights workers'
expertise  contributors engage with the personal  professional  and institutional dimensions of
torture and redress. Essays in this volume consider torture from diverse locations - the
Philippines  Argentina  Sudan  and Guantánamo  among others. From across the globe 
contributors witness both individual pain and institutional complicity  the challenges of
building communities of healing across linguistic and national divides  and the role of the law
art  writing  and teaching in representing and responding to torture.

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