Witnessing Torture Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moore, Alexandra S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Swanson, Elizabeth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature .; Human rights.; Criminology.; Social justice.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Contemporary Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Human Rights and Crime .; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Human Rights.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

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 t...