Women Witnessing Terror: Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights

Anne Cubilie

Published by Fordham University Press 2005

Women Witnessing Terror

Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights

Anne Cubilie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293582

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CHAPTER 1 Witness and Testimony: Ethics, Trauma, Speech, and Paradox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 ‘‘The Erotics of Violence’’: Performing Violence in The Balcony and The Conduct of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER 3 Testimonial and Surviving: Gender and the Crisis of Witnessing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
CHAPTER 4 State Terror and the Ethical Witness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
CHAPTER 5 Testimonial, Trauma, and the Crises of Discourse in Bosnia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
CHAPTER 6 Grounded Ethics: Testimonial Witnessing from Rural Afghanistan to the United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823293582