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Representing humanity in an age of terror

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Representing humanity in an age of terroredited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello.
other author:	Morello, Henry James,
Published:	West Lafayette, Ind. :Purdue University Press,c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (348 p.).
Subject:	Terrorism in mass media.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781612490335 (electronic bk.)

Representing humanity in an age of terror
Representing humanity in an age of terror[electronic resource] /edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello. - West Lafayette, Ind. :Purdue University Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (348 p.). - Comparative cultural studies. - Comparative cultural studies..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Democracy's promise and the politics of worldliness in the age of terror / Henry A. Giroux --The humanities, human rights, and the comparative imagination / Sophia A. McClennen -- The logic and the language oftorture / Jonathan H. Marks -- Narration in international human rightslaw / Joseph R. Slaughter -- On linguistic human rights and the UnitedStates "foreign" language crisis / Domna Stanton -- The black boy and representation of the (in)human / Li-Chun Hsiao -- The terrorist event / Bill Nichols -- Reading South African media representation of Islam after 11 September 2001 / GabebaBaderoon -- Collateral damage and the "incident" at Haditha / Tom Engelhardt -- The tortured body, the photography, and the US War on Terror / Julie Gerk Hernandez -- Mass-mediated social terror in Spain / Nicholas Manganas -- Media in a capitalism culture / Barbara Trent -- Textual strategies to resist disappearance and the mothers of Plaz de Mayo / Alicia Partnoy -- The global phenomenon of "humanizing" terrorism in literature and cinema / Elaine Martin -- Landmines, HIV/AIDS, and Africa's new generation / Barbara Harlow -- Dorfman, Schubert, and Death and the maiden / David Schroder -- Bearing witness through fiction / Carolina Rocha -- Globalizing compassion, photography, and the challenge of terror / Ariel Dorfman -- A monk's tale / Sam Hamill -- Poetry and the aesthetic of morality / Michael McIrvin -- Artists in the times of war / Howard Zinn -- Select bibliography of comparativestudies on human rights culture / Henry James Morello.

"Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of the collected volume Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello, ask a series of questions: Whatdefinitions of humanity account for the persistence of human rights violations? How do we define terror and how do we understand the ways that terror affects the representation of those that both suffer and profit from it? Why is it that the representation of terror often depends ona distorted (for example, racist, fascist, xenophobic, essentialist, eliminationist) representation of human beings? And, most importantly, can representation, especially forms of art, rescue humanity from the forces of terror ordoes it run the risk of making it possible? The authors of the volume's articles discuss aspects ofterror with regard to human rights events across the globe, but especially in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Their discussion and reflection demonstrate that the need to question continuously and to engage in permanent critique does not contradict the need to seek answers, to advocate social change, and to intervene critically. With contributions by scholars, activists, and artists, the articles collected here offer strategies for intervening critically in debates about the connections between terror and human rights as they are taking place across contemporary society. The work presented in the volume is intended for scholars, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, in fields of the humanities and social sciences including political science, sociology, history, literary study, cultural studies, and cultural anthropology." "The articles movedeftly between high theory and practical politics, guiding the reader through an impressive range of material (poetry, prose, music, film, and photography) with broad historical scope (the French Revolution, post-World-War II decolonization, the "Global War on Terror")---all the while retaining a strong sense of cohesion and unity of purpose. This is aspirited collection, simultaneously provocative and rigorous. It is not only an urgent appeal for engaged public scholarship, but also a first-rate example of it---JamesDawes, Macalester College" "Some suggest that comparative literature is a dead discipline. This book proves them wrong by showing the engaged responsiveness of post-contemporary comparativism to current social and political problems. Rather than fashioning itself as an alibi for Western imperialism, the volume reveal the emerging role of comparative literature and comparative cultural studies as an active agent in progressive social understanding and change---particularly in an "age of terror."---Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria"--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 9781612490335 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

478654
Terrorism in mass media.

LC Class. No.: JC571 / .R473 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 323.4/9

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