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Michael Richardson

Gestures of Testimony

Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature

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After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: torturous pain and its traumatic aftermath have long been held to destroy language, shatter experience, and refuse representation. Challenging accepted thinking, Gestures of Testimony asks how literature might bear witness to the tortures of a war waged against fear itself. Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of torture and power, Richardson adopts… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-5013-1581-7
  • EAN: 9781501315817
  • Produktnummer: 28596442
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'329 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 12 b/w illustrations

Über den Autor


Michael Richardson is Lecturer in the School of Arts & Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he teaches media and communication. He co-edited the collection Traumatic Affect (2013) and his research has appeared in international journals. A former speechwriter, he also writes political commentary, reviews, and fiction.

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