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04404aam a2200481 i 4500 001 412085FCFB5511E7891C5F6197128E48 003 SILO 005 20180117010240 008 160219s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015046296 020 $a 1501315803 020 $a 9781501315800 035 $a (OCoLC)940954256 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d STF $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.T62 $b R53 2016 082 00 $a 809/.933552 $2 23 084 $a LIT006000 $a LIT004020 $a LIT006000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Richardson, Michael, $d 1980- $e author. 240 10 $a Torture, trauma, and affect in literature 245 10 $a Gestures of testimony : $b torture, trauma, and affect in literature / $c Michael Richardson. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2016. 300 $a x, 220 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature 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 an interdisciplinary approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness to torture and its traumas. Grounded in provocative readings of fiction by George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels and Janette Turner Hospital, poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, and the Torture Memos of the Bush Administration, the analysis traverses politics, law and cinema to re-think literary testimony. Drawing upon some of the most influential thinkers of recent times on power, affect, trauma and torture, the book does more than critique culture and literature: it proposes new practices of literary witnessing. Gestures of Testimony gives shape to a mode of gestural testimony, a reaching beyond the page in the writing of torture in fiction that reveals the shape, depth and intensity of violent trauma-even as it embodies its veiling."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Brings together theories of affect, trauma and power to propose new practices of bearing literary witness to the torture of the war on terror"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Gesturing the Unrepresentable -- Tortured Bodies -- Reading Torture -- Seeing Torture -- Writing Trauma -- Witnessing and the Poetics of Trauma -- Writing Torturous Affect -- Conclusion: Speaking Beyond Words. 650 0 $a Torture in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007988 650 0 $a Psychic trauma in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007877 650 0 $a Affect (Psychology) in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001513 650 0 $a Torture in motion pictures. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006579 650 0 $a Psychic trauma in motion pictures. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004007750 650 0 $a Affect (Psychology) in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129705 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Social aspects. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088108 650 0 $a Torture $x Moral and ethical aspects. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010116133 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x Semiotics & Theory. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Richardson, Michael, 1980- $t Gestures of testimony. $d New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 2016 $z 9781501315824 $w (OCoLC)940958378 $w (OCoLC)940958378 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214013249.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=412085FCFB5511E7891C5F6197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search