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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cubilié, Anne, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In 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, 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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

9780823293582

0823293580

OCLC:

1369645160