Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare

Kill Boxes: Facing the Legacy of US-Sponsored Torture, Indefinite Detention, and Drone Warfare Elisabeth Weber.

Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in...

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Main Author: Weber, Elisabeth, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in literature.
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature
Torture in literature
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : shocks of recognition
  • Torture was the essence of National-Socialism : reading Jean Amery Today
  • Living-with-torture-together
  • Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
  • Guantánamo poems
  • Ages of cruelty : Jacques Derrida, Fethi Benslama, and their challenges to psychoanalysis
  • Kill boxes : Kafka's beetles, drones
  • Afterword / by Richard Falk.

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