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Women Witnessing Terror
Anne Cubilie
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Description for Women Witnessing Terror
Hardback. Examines testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPVH; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, including genocide, state terror, ethnic cleansing, and war, Anne Cubilié uses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personal witness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists, and others who study the space between victim and survivor, ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female. This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefully how ethical witnessing—listening to the voices of survivors— reformulates the language of human rights ... Read more
A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, including genocide, state terror, ethnic cleansing, and war, Anne Cubilié uses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personal witness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists, and others who study the space between victim and survivor, ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female. This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefully how ethical witnessing—listening to the voices of survivors— reformulates the language of human rights ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823224340
SKU
V9780823224340
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About Anne Cubilie
Anne Cubilie is a consultant in gender, human rights, and education at the United Nations.
Reviews for Women Witnessing Terror
"Remarkably original. Not only does Cubilie explore an entire new 'genre,' if one can use such terms about the literature of atrocity, but she develops a new critical style of addressing the questions raised by the works."
-Michael Ryan Northeastern University
-Michael Ryan Northeastern University