Gestures of testimony : torture, trauma, and affect in literature /
"After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: torturous pain and its...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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