Full Description
This 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 dark chamber. 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.
Contents
Part I Torture in Context and Translation .-1 Torture: The Catastrophe of a Bond.-2 Torture in an Historical Context: Notes from Sudan.-3 The Unspeakable Agony of Inflicted Pain: Torture,.-4 Translating Trauma, Witnessing Survival.-Part II Witnessing Torture and Recovery: Survivors, HealthProfessionals, Institutions.-5 The Role of Health Professionals in Torture Treatment.-6 Assessing the Treatment of Torture: Balancing.-Quantifiable with Intangible Metrics 7 The Little Red Cabinet of Tears: The Impact upon.-Treatment Providers of Bearing Witness to Torture Judy B. Okawa.-8 Beyond Institutional Betrayal: When the Professional Is Personal.-Part III Disappearance and Torture, Redress and Representation.-9 Everardo and the CIA's Long-Term Torture Practices.-10 Survivors and the Origin of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.-11 The Tenacity of Memory: Art in the Aftermath of Atrocity 12 Teaching about Torture, or, Reading between the Lines in the Humanities.-13 Legal Appeal: Habeas Lawyers Narrate Guantánamo Life.-14 Did We Survive Torture?.-Epilogue: From Solitude to Solidarity.-Index
