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Torture in literature.
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Torture in mass media.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (vii, 374 pages :) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
Part 1: America Tortures. An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception, and Denial -- In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History -- Part 2: Singularities of Witness. Torture and Society -- What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today -- "Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism": Reading Jean Améry Today -- "What Did the Corpse Want?" Torture in Poetry -- Part 3: Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload. Painting Against Torture -- Torture and Representation: The Art of Détournement -- Waterboarding: Political and Sacred Torture -- Damnatio Memoriae -- Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East -- Music and Torture: The Stigmata of Sound and Sense -- The Language of Feeling Made into a Weapon: Music as an Instrument of Torture -- Part 4: Declassifying Writing -- Romantic Poet Legislators: An End of Torture -- The Fine Details: Torture and the Social Order -- Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities -- John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Carlson, Julie Ann, 1955-
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Weber, Elisabeth, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9780823242283 (electronic bk.) |
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0823242285 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823248810 (electronic bk.) |
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082324881X (electronic bk.) |
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9780823246229 |
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0823246221 |
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