Research Catalog

Title

The future of testimony : interdisciplinary perspectives on witnessing / edited by Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland.

Publication

New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kilby, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
• Rowland, Antony

Description

viii, 244 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the explosion and radical extension of human rights discourse; renewed cultural interest in perpetrators of violence alongside the phenomenal commercial success of victim testimony (in the form of misery memoirs); and the emergence of disciplinary interest in genocide, terror, and other violent atrocities. These issues are necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain, and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures, and in postcolonial contexts. At the volume's core is an interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of witnessing as it plays out through a 'new' Europe, post-9/11 US, war-torn Africa, and in countless refugee and detention centers, and as it is worked out by lawyers, journalists, medics, and novelists. The collection draws together an international range of case-studies, including discussion of the former Yugoslavia, Gaza, and Rwanda, and encompasses a cross-disciplinary set of texts, novels, plays, testimonial writing, and hybrid testimonies. The volume situates itself at the cutting-edge of debate and as such brings together the leading thinkers in the field, requiring that each address the future, anticipating and setting the future terms of debate on the importance of testimony"--

Series Statement

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 28

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 28.

Alternative Title

• Testimony : interdisciplinary perspectives on witnessing
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on witnessing

Subjects

• Psychic trauma and mass media
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Recollection (Psychology) > Case studies
• Memory > Social aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
• Witnesses in literature
• Testimony (Theory of knowledge)
• Psychic trauma in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.

Call Number

JFE 14-5849

ISBN

• 9780415854450 (hardback)
• 0415854458 (hardback)

LCCN

2014002347

OCLC

861212050

Title

The future of testimony : interdisciplinary perspectives on witnessing / edited by Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 28

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 28.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.

Added Author

Kilby, Jane (Jane Elizabeth), editor.

Rowland, Antony, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-5849