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      Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing

      The Future of Testimony

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      The Future of Testimony book

      Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
      Edited ByAntony Rowland, Jane Kilby
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 16 June 2014
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203743836
      Pages 254
      eBook ISBN 9780203743836
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
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      Rowland, A., & Kilby, J. (Eds.). (2014). The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203743836

      ABSTRACT

      Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the explosion and radical extension of human rights discourse; renewed cultural interest in perpetrators of violence alongside the phenomenal commercial success of victim testimony (in the form of misery memoirs); and the emergence of disciplinary interest in genocide, terror, and other violent atrocities. These issues are necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain, and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures, and in postcolonial contexts. At the volume’s core is an interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of witnessing as it plays out through a ‘new’ Europe, post-9/11 US, war-torn Africa, and in countless refugee and detention centers, and as it is worked out by lawyers, journalists, medics, and novelists. The collection draws together an international range of case-studies, including discussion of the former Yugoslavia, Gaza, and Rwanda, and encompasses a cross-disciplinary set of texts, novels, plays, testimonial writing, and hybrid testimonies. The volume situates itself at the cutting-edge of debate and as such brings together the leading thinkers in the field, requiring that each address the future, anticipating and setting the future terms of debate on the importance of testimony.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction

      ByJANE KILBY, ANTONY ROWLAND

      part |2 pages

      PART I Witnessing in Psychoanalysis and History

      chapter 1|14 pages

      History, Memory, Testimony

      ByDAN STONE

      chapter 2|17 pages

      After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History

      ByCATHY CARUTH

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Fire in the Archive: The Alignment of Witnesses

      BySHOSHANA FELMAN

      chapter 4|14 pages

      The Public Secret

      ByROBERT EAGLESTONE

      chapter 5|28 pages

      Testimonial Modes: Witnessing, Evidence and Testimony Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

      ByKIRSTEN CAMPBELL

      part |2 pages

      PART II Beyond Western Testimony

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Hannah Arendt’s Message of Ill-Tidings: Statelessness, Rights and Speech

      ByLYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Professional Witnessing in Rwanda: Human Rights and Creative Responses to Genocide

      ByZOE NORRIDGE

      chapter 8|16 pages

      Beyond Autobiography: Hybrid Testimony and the Art of Witness

      ByMATTHEW BOSWELL

      chapter 9|17 pages

      A Natural History of Testimony?

      ByRICK CROWNSHAW

      part |2 pages

      PART III The Enduring Aesthetic: Literature and Testimony

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Holocaust Memory and the Critique of Violence in Caryl Churchill’s Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza

      BySTEF CRAPS

      chapter 11|15 pages

      Living Among the Ruins of Memory and Language: Jorge Semprún and Testimony

      ByURSULA TIDD

      chapter 12|8 pages

      Impossible Histories: Adorno and the Question of Lyric

      ByDAVID MILLER

      chapter 13|11 pages

      ‘The Writer Begins in the Towers’: Don DeLillo, 9/11 and the Ethics of Testimony

      ByPAULA MARTÍN SALVÁN
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