Representing humanity in an age of terror /
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| Imprint: | West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | 348 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Comparative cultural studies Comparative cultural studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8269283 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror
- Part 1. Human Rights
- Democracy's Promise and the Politics of Worldliness in the Age of Terror
- The Humanities, Human Rights, and the Comparative Imagination
- The Logic and Language of Torture
- Narration in International Human Rights Law
- On Linguistic Human Rights and the United States ôForeignö Language Crisis
- The Black Body and Representations of the (In)human
- Part 2. Media
- The Terrorist Event
- Reading South African Media Representations of Islam after 11 September 2001
- Collateral Damage and the ôIncidentö at Haditha
- The Tortured Body, the Photograph, and the US War on Terror
- Mass-Mediated Social Terror in Spain
- Media in a Capitalist Culture
- Part 3. Analysis
- Textual Strategies to Resist Disappearance and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
- The Global Phenomenon of ôHumanizingö Terrorism in Literature and Cinema
- Landmines, HIV/AIDS, and Africa's New Generation
- Dorfman, Schubert, and Death and the Maiden
- Bearing Witness through Fiction
- Part 4. Artists
- Globalizing Compassion, Photography, and the Challenge of Terror
- A Monk's Tale
- Poetry and the Aesthetic of Morality
- Artists in Times of War
- Part 5. Bibliography
- Selected Bibliography of Comparative Studies on Human Rights Cuiture
- Contributors' Profiles
- Index
