Beyond Terror - Gender, Narrative, Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Klappentext Argues that after human rights violations have occurred, the realm of representation - actual and fictional - is precisely the ground upon which struggles for justice and peace are waged in legal, emotional, and cultural terms. This work also focuses on various narratives about abuses, including those in South Africa, Rwanda, and Iraq. Zusammenfassung Argues that after human rights violations have occurred! the realm of representation - actual and fictional - is precisely the ground upon which struggles for justice and peace are waged in legal! emotional! and cultural terms. This work also focuses on various narratives about abuses! including those in South Africa! Rwanda! and Iraq. Inhaltsverzeichnis Torture I: Safety. Jon Boorman, Beyond Rangoon; Richard Attenborough, Cry Freedom; David O. Russell, Three Kings Torture II: Citizenship. Jon Avnet, Red Corner; Oliver Stone, Salvador; Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali Torture III: Desire. Sister Dianna Ortiz and Alan Dershowitz at CUNY Graduate Center; Stephen Frears, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid; the Lynndie England case Rape: The Division of Spheres. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace; Gayl Jones, Corregidora; Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits Genocide: Witness. Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones; Pat Barker, Double Vision; Edoardo Ponti, Between Strangers; Atom Egoyan, Ararat

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elizabeth Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
• Mitarbeit: Patrice Petro (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 22.06.2007
• EAN: 9780813540610
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4061-0
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: New Directions in Internationa; New Directions in International Studies; New Directions in Internationa
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung