{"product_id":"witnessing-torture-perspectives-of-torture-survivors-and-human-rights-workers-paperback","title":"Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra S. Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Swanson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial \u003ci\u003edark chamber\u003c\/i\u003e. By dismantling the rhetorical divide that typically separates survivors' suffering from human rights workers' expertise, contributors engage with the personal, professional, and institutional dimensions of torture and redress. Essays in this volume consider torture from diverse locations - the Philippines, Argentina, Sudan, and Guantánamo, among others. From across the globe, contributors witness both individual pain and institutional complicity; the challenges of building communities of healing across linguistic and national divides; and the role of the law, art, writing, and teaching in representing and responding to torture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University, USA. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eVulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and \u003ci\u003eRegenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family \u003c\/i\u003e(2004). She has also co-edited several volumes and a special journal issue: \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e (with Sophia A. McClennen, 2015); \u003ci\u003eTeaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (with Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, 2015); \u003ci\u003eGlobally Networked Teaching in the Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e (with Sunka Simon, 2015); \u003ci\u003eTheoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (with Goldberg, 2011), and Human Rights and Cultural Forms, special issue of \u003ci\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (with Goldberg and Greg Mullins, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Swanson is Professor of English at Babson College, USA, and has published widely on the subject of literature and human rights. Author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), she is co-editor, with Alexandra Schultheis Moore, of \u003ci\u003eTheoretical Perspectives on Literature and Human Rights \u003c\/i\u003e(2011) and \u003ci\u003eOptions for Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), and with James Brewer Stewart of \u003ci\u003eHuman Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Slavery Past and Present \u003c\/i\u003e(2018). She has been a human rights activist since age 14, when she wrote her first letter for Amnesty International, and has for the past ten years worked with survivors of sex trafficking and gender-based violence in southeast Asia to create dignified, sustainable, life and livelihood solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51794649350432,"sku":"9783319749648","price":48.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c2400683b50e5d150d0971f8aeac228.webp?v=1780730469","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/witnessing-torture-perspectives-of-torture-survivors-and-human-rights-workers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}