...Bertram Wyatt-Brown Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies . Edited with an Introduction by Blassingame John W. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1977 . Pp. lxv , 777 . Illustrated. Index. $37.50 cloth; $9.95 , paper...

...Charles B. Wheeler The People Versus Art: Coleridge s Testimony Re-examined Charles B. Wheeler The vocabulary of literary criticism is notoriously subject to changes of taste. Even if concepts and attitudes remain the same, as they sometimes do, they tend to be given different verbal forms...

... of October 2014, known as the Kobani Protests, across northern Kurdistan. The following excerpts are derived from Demirtaş’s extensive testimony before the Turkish court, spanning nine days between December 2023 and January 2024. He and his legal representatives facilitated the compilation...

... by the administration of General Ibrahim Abboud and in which he opted to take the stand in defending himself. This testimony is Mahgoub's explication of why and how he became a Marxist. The statement also powerfully reflects Mahgoub's frustration with the utter bankruptcy of the nationalist discourse, which he saw...

... struggle to find vocabulary to describe the loss. Often the effect of this discursive gap is testimony that blurs the distinction between fetus and baby. While my research suggests that many women giving their testimonies were not engaged with the discursive effects of this on abortion politics, those who...

... principle among the workers, the youth, and women among all segments of Sudanese society. The SCP's strong presence politically is testimony to its enduring appeal. This appeal is proof of the weakness of Adlan's argument for the SCP's dissolution, which would hold the Sudanese people hostage to right-wing...

...Salah M. Hassan The last two decades have marked the publication of a number of prison memoirs and testimonials written by former leftist political prisoners in Sudan. Unlike reports issued by international human rights organizations, these publications foreground a much more personal...

... commonly held notions of Aboriginal demise on a distant frontier. But if the Australia House protests remain impressive for their ingenuity and haunting symbolism, newspaper reports of his testimony in court in 1929 finally provided the publicity he sought for the Aboriginal cause. © 2011 Duke University...

... significant empirically grounded effort to understand what had happened, how, and why. Over three months, sixty journalists and researchers interviewed hundreds of those who had participated in the riots; they collected and analyzed more than 1.3 million words of first-hand testimonies. Paul Lewis...

... of (slave) testimony. The reading of tragedy here doubles as a nuanced critique of the juridical production of truth, one with important connections to Foucault’s contemporaneous political efforts to support practices of legal defense that rejected the demand that the crimi nalized subject reveal himself...

... task of witnessing the inhuman. In the first part, Giorgio Agamben's ethics of testimony is situated in his general project of a deconstruction of what he sees as the inherently dangerous metaphysics of Western logos , conducive to the destructive biopolitics that found in Auschwitz its fateful...

...: they become in sum and summation a matter of testimony and attestation. Testimony implies another degree or logic of reality testing, the requirements of which are often satisfied with the appearance of truthfulness or veracity. Irreducible to a strictly verifiable result, testimony embraces the instability...

... the oral testimony of Bertrande, now an older woman. Scenes 5 through 27 alternate between this moment of the magistrate s lawful and forceful acquisition of a tale of the past and a series of flashbacks motivated by Bertrande s story of the families his­ tory. Represented in visual images...

... Disney deeply; throughout his 1947 testimony before HUAC, Disney tied his charges of Communist influ­ ence in the strike to the strikers ability to mobilize a wide-reaching network of publicity in order to smear him and his movies. Sorrell was a Communist, he said, because [w]hen he pulled the strike...

.... In most instances these committees not only heard testimony for and against legislative proposals, but were confronted with the problem of examining the technical language embodied in each of these bills, as well as having to draft their convictions as to what the law should or should...

... not well received in Virginia, pertinacious, egotistical, and bitter, he had become very unpopular in his native state. He had been defeated for the Virginia convention of 1861. Botts s version of the interview is found in his testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, on February 15, 1866 ;16...

.... Durand, of Stanford Univers­ ity, the secretary of the Commission, shared with Mr. F. W. Phillips, its first vice-chairman, the chief work of direction. Admirable digests by Dr. Durand of the testimony received add much to the value of the report. He also prepared special re­ ports on General Statistics...

.... Durand, of Stanford Univers­ ity, the secretary of the Commission, shared with Mr. F. W. Phillips, its first vice-chairman, the chief work of direction. Admirable digests by Dr. Durand of the testimony received add much to the value of the report. He also prepared special re­ ports on General Statistics...

... for the organized liquor interests. In others these interests forced the trades-unions and the manufacturers and dealers doing business with them into such organizations under the threat of the economic boycott. The interlocking of economic interests thus effected is revealed in the testimony of the president...

... only testify, must be universal; it must take place “in a language whose gener- ality takes on a value that is in some way structural, universal, transcen- dental” (20). As Derrida puts it, the logic of testimony and the example, thus the logic of identity, always comes down to this: “What holds...