Representing humanity in an age of terror /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morello, Henry James, 1965-, McClennen, Sophia A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2010]
Series:Comparative cultural studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 of torture / Jonathan H. Marks
  • Narration in international human rights law / Joseph R. Slaughter
  • On linguistic human rights and the United States "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 / Gabeba Baderoon
  • 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 comparative studies on human rights culture / Henry James Morello.