Women witnessing terror
Subtitle: testimony and the cultural politics of human rights
By: Anne Cubilié.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Reportage literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Atrocities in literature.; Women and war.; State-sponsored terrorism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Witness and testimony : ethics, trauma, speech, and paradox; title: "The erotics of violence" : performing violence in The balcony and The conduct of life; title: Testimonial and surviving : gender and the crisis of witnessing; title: State terror and the ethical witness; title: Testimonial, trauma, and the crises of discourse in Bosnia; title: Grounded ethics : testimonial witnessing from rural Afghanistan to the United States.