"What can be infinitely destroyed is what can infinitely survive" : literary and filmic representations of political torture from Algiers to Guantánamo

This thesis takes the post-9/11 Anglo-American torture debate as the territory for its analysis of the multiple and overlapping ways that cultural representations are implicated in political discourses regarding the practice of political torture by Western liberal democracies in the twenty-first cen...

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Main Author: Adams, Alex
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618250