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

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weber, Elisabeth, 1959- author (author), Falk, Richard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2017
Baltimore, Maryland : 2020
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in literature.
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture in literature.
torture
drone warfare
Abu Ghraib
Guantánamo Bay
human rights
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421037706719
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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