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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 328–331.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Brooke Holmes The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture . By Ballengee Jennifer R. . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2009 . 190 p. © 2011 by University of Oregon 2011 BOOK REVIEWS
Th e Wo u n d...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 381–407.
Published: 01 December 2019
... in a crisis of representation as the fullness of creative, artistic, and amorous satisfaction continues to elude him. The objective of the bildungsroman thus stands as the elusive and problematic ideal to which Il Piacere’ s protagonist should strive and remains a constant, tortured concern throughout...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 336–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of physical suffering endows it with the force of truth, the resis-
tance of pain to meaning leaves the content of that truth open-ended. The palpable truth
of the body’s suffering is thus open to appropriation, and nowhere is this appropriation
more evident than in practices of torture. Torture...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 331–335.
Published: 01 September 2011
... reality of physical suffering endows it with the force of truth, the resis-
tance of pain to meaning leaves the content of that truth open-ended. The palpable truth
of the body’s suffering is thus open to appropriation, and nowhere is this appropriation
more evident than in practices of torture...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and nowhere is this appropriation
more evident than in practices of torture. Torture, in other words, is a highly effective
means of harnessing the signifying potential of pain as a rhetorical resource. The torturer
is a ventriloquist, forcing the body to speak his or her message through its suffering...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... Felman Shoshana Laub Dori . New York : Routledge , 1992 . 75 – 92 . Print . McClennen Sophia A. “Torture and Truth in Ariel Dorfman's La muerte y la doncella.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 62 . 2 ( 2009 ): 179 – 95 . Print . Minow Martha . “The Hope for Healing: What...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 299–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... 2005 article, “Where is Guantánamo?” Kaplan, nevertheless, unmasks the long-standing imperial ideologies that need a place like Guantánamo to be outside the state that controls it. Extending as they do to a “global penal archipelago where the U.S. indefinitely detains, secretly transports, and tortures...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 298–314.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that the worldwide preference for boys
over girls, and the consequent neglect, abuse and even infanticide of girls, is
rooted in economic structures rather than laws. The 1993 Vienna Declaration
and Program of Action highlighted the connections between women’s economic
vulnerability and their murder, torture...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to recognize the ways its very being is regarded and used differently by different populations. “Translation” in this regard is not simply a matter of semantics and nuance, it is also a matter of what can even be said. Anton Shammas’ essay “Torture into Affidavit, Dispossession into Poetry” is a haunting...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., the aristo-
cratic patriarch Count Francesco Cenci banished his older sons, incarcerated,
starved, and tortured his younger children and second wife, and raped his daugh-
ter Beatrice. In retaliation, the count’s family members conspired to murder him,
an act of violence that ultimately led...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 498–501.
Published: 01 December 2022
... were nominally sent on “woodgathering duty” and then shot in the back), but perhaps one is that even among those willing to carry out torture and summary executions, and who may have considered them ethically justifiable, there was a nagging sense that they were illegal. It is in the second chapter...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... groups with their French compatriots, with the aim of drawing the attention of the French to the fact that the “barbarities” committed by the Brazilian natives had local cultural justifications, whereas those committed by his fellow countrymen did not. Torturing and burning French compatriots, a practice...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
... been released from the fiery torture of hell to roam the earth.
Although Brontë’s ghost takes the form of a child, she answers Lockwood’s ques-
tion by giving the name she possessed as a married adult: Catherine Linton
rather than Catherine Earnshaw. Ayu’s girl-creature is similarly a combination...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 47–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the immediate issues raised by the
commission. For instance, Khulumani Support Group’s The Story I’m About to Tell
provides a direct, raw presentation of testimonies by torture victims that, in Mar-
lin-Curiel’s phrase, attempts to “salvage meaning” (14) from the many questions
raised by the TRC. Jane...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 58–71.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... As a novelist, Behn reverts to the personal “eye-
witness” presentation of sensational (aesthetic) experience and the pleasures this
affords. But her testimony is ambiguous, a point Campbell makes with particular
force in her analysis of the torture and dismemberment of Oroonoko’s epony-
mous hero (chpt. 8...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
...’ stol’
razitel’nuiu istoricheskuiu chertu, bylo eshyo neprostitel’nee” (PSS 11:160; my translation).
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her family by eloping with her seducer. Moreover, Mazepa tortured Kochubei
before killing him in an effort both to fi nd out where Kochubei has hidden his
treasure...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 307–327.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and Nazi symbols were used [by the torturers Given the book’s find-
ings, which include details of tortures to which Jews were uniquely subjected, qua
Jews, it is difficult to understand why such treatment does not earn the dictator-
ship the adjective “anti-Semitic.” Indeed, “It is clear,” the report...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and Marx, arguments
against censorship have tended to pivot on the equating of a written work with a
person.1 At the height of imperial censorship in Japan, this tactic was used by
authors and editors to highlight the parallels between the practices of censorship
by Publishing Police and torture...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 111–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... opponents, Sam’s guards disappear and he walks into the dusty streets of Bagh-
dad, feeling disoriented and out of place. After his papers are stolen and he is
arrested at a checkpoint, Sam is taken to prison and tortured in an “empty and
black” room without windows. The torture chamber, Sam realizes...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., developing torture chambers of irony and sarcasm, gas ovens of limitless black resonance. For [Marechera], this is the impossible, the exciting, the voluptuous blackening image that commits [him] totally to writing” (4). He further elaborates that “the undergrowth of [his] experimental use of English...
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