... developing among slaves that deliberately focused on perpetrators rather than victims of New World slavery. Such a reading widens our understanding of early trauma theory by making visible the tension between Stowe’s sentimental strategy famously inscribed in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and her adaptation of theories...

.... Developed by philosopher Augustine of Hippo and jurist Hugo Grotius, who both also contributed to just war theory, the concept of hostis humani generis, Schillings argues, serves as a kind of legal fiction to justify the violence a sovereign power or nation-state perpetrates in order to defend a community...

...—rather than a possible ally of color against white America’s violence. Morrison’s novel, a correlative of Keller’s Fox Girl , addresses Afro-Asian antagonism stemming from the bifurcated perception of the Black perpetrator and the yellow victim, a rigid, dividing framework, which I term an Afro...

... that figured slavery as a crime, slaveholders as perpetrators and defen- dants, slaves as victims and eyewitnesses, and abolitionists as advo- cates for the slave. In the court of public opinion created by this juridi- cal...

... for a figurative if not literal murder, the narra- tive consistently links feelings of culpability with acts of consumption. Moreover, it links transgressive or incriminating behaviors with the perpetrator’s compulsive need...

... condemn Islam for perpetrating slavery and slavery for perpetrating idolatry. As Johnson critiques Islam for its enslavement of women, she also indicates that Islam is more than a chosen faith or set of ritual performances; Muslim describes a particular, essential character...

..., who lives with his half-sister, Winnie. The daughter of the deceased Colonel Carlingford, Winnie has been made a captive and her father’s estate stolen. Zach communicates with the spirit of Carlingford in the play, and he vows to track down those who perpetrated this wrong. Referring to one of his...

... of an inappropriate response is clear—one can act against the image itself, as Buckingham does and Sanderson fantasizes about doing, rather than against the perpetrators of the actual violence. But perhaps even wrong action is better than no action at all. By widely distributing the image through the press...

... to the “usurpations, weaknesses, and violations” perpetrated by the rebels ( Royal Gazette 1781 ), but the writer, who had already gone on at some length, left off by reminding readers that there was already plenty in Congress’s own records to show the folly of independence. Doubling down on this dilatory...

... for a reason. The scars and bruises of history don’t go away. Practices change. Cultures even change. But there is a residue in the institutional life and in the individual lives of both the victims and the perpetrators. If the past is not acknowledged, it festers in ways that brilliant writers ranging...

... tells itself about itself: moments of spectacular failure aside, infrastructural access and infrastructural violence are rendered invisible, with racial violence naturalized and material causalities obscured (though never, of course, to those against whom such violence is perpetrated). In what follows...

... death is a pointless tragedy perpetrated by Carlos Hidalgo, an alcoholic friend who becomes infatuated with Lelia. Indeed, the meaningless- ness of the trauma confirms Theodore’s pessimism, albeit not without ambiguity—why, for example, is such violence requisite for his enlight- enment? Still...

... would have been simply, ‘The Sioux Massacresmassacres perpetrated on the Sioux as well as by them 9 Despite the substantial distraction of war in the South, the Dakota Conflict produced a flood of words intended to temper or inflame reactions against the indigenous occupants of the region...

... that perpetrates a myopia of its own: that women authors worth study- ing mount one particular kind of affront to traditional views and values. Linda Kerber points out that during the antebellum period, ‘‘the ide- ology of separate spheres could be both instrumental and prescrip- tive That is, it facilitated...

... texts, double-­voiced by white interlocution of a free “colored” subjectivity. Although— perhaps because—Eldridge lacked the skill to write an account of her own life, and though her collaborator cannot comprehensively analyze the structural underpinnings of the wrongs perpetrated...

... the more salient tradition of science fiction emblematized by writers such as Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin—a tradition whose disposal of realism proceeds from a feminist or multiculturalist critique of patriarchy, whiteness, and related systems of discipline perpetrated by that high literary mode...

... demands and second, they recast Newsom and Flint as perpetrators. They accuse their masters and those who uphold the laws which forbid them sexual subjectivity. Christina Accomando notes that in Jacobs’s narrative “[t]he keepers of the laws become the outlaws, and her allegiance is to some higher...

... Dictionary Online [OED15 Braid does indeed perpetrate a clever trick on the player. In its final moments, through the climax and a playable epilogue, the game reveals its core figure to be the atom bomb. The game hints at this historical context on several levels—via text, images, audio...

... for the one who is ‘‘the actor or absolute perpetrator’’ (CLE, 4:34). Blackstone offers a series of examples to demonstrate that presence at the scene of a murder is not necessary for one to be charged as a ‘‘principal felon...

... on his own con- dition. His loss is parallel but not the same. Moreover, he assigns the perpetrators of the violence a role in the recovery: they cannot feel his pain but they must acknowledge their guilt. In Germany, the collec- tive amnesia and denial have given way to holocaust museums, yet...