Women witnessing terror : testimony and the cultural politics of human rights / Anne Cubilie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cubilié, Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reportage literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Reportage literature.

Atrocities in literature.

Women and war.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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, Anne Cubili+ 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 reformulates the language of human rights and enhances its ability to intervene against violence and oppression.

Contents:

Witness and testimony : ethics, trauma, speech, and paradox

"The erotics of violence" : performing violence in The balcony and The conduct of life

Testimonial and surviving : gender and the crisis of witnessing

State terror and the ethical witness

Testimonial, trauma, and the crises of discourse in Bosnia

Grounded ethics : testimonial witnessing from rural Afghanistan to the United States.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4867-4

OCLC:

607680571