Testimony found poems from the special court for Sierra Leone / Shanee Stepakoff.

"This stirring collection is derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, Sierra Leone. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff has provided new insights into the realities of the civil war of 1991-2002 and the suffering (as we...

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Main Author: Stepakoff, Shanee (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2021.
Series:Griot Project book series.
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505 0 |a Cover -- More Praise for Testimony -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword by Ernest D. Cole -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction: Silence, Language, and the Making of Art -- The Amputee's Mother -- The Child Soldier -- The Grieving Father -- The Rape Survivor -- The Blinded Farmer -- The Widower -- The Gravedigger -- The Beggar -- The Victim of War -- Further Resources -- Acknowledgments -- About the Cover Artist -- About the Foreword Author -- About the Author 
520 |a "This stirring collection is derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, Sierra Leone. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff has provided new insights into the realities of the civil war of 1991-2002 and the suffering (as well as the dignity, courage, and strength of spirit) of the millions of people who were affected by it. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are amplified and not forgotten. In a helpful introduction, Dr. Stepakoff discusses specific reasons that the genre of "found poetry" serves as a uniquely powerful means by which writers can bear witness to atrocity. In the tradition of Charles Reznikoff's 1975 collection of found poems based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, Shanee Stepakoff's excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens a new possibility for speaking about the unspeakable"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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