Discourse Volume 25, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2003 (The Future of Testimony)
Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.
Discourse Volume 25, Numbers 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2003)
The Future of Testimony
Table of Contents
Introduction
Anne Cubilie and Carl Good
Numbering Pain: Testimony, Quantification, and Need
Dominic Rainsford
The Ethics of Testimony: A Genealogical Perspective
Andrea Frisch
Living to Read True Crime: Theorizations from Prison
Megan Sweeney
‘‘These are our stories’’: Trauma, Form, and the Screen Phenomenon of Law and Order
Susanna Lee
Dictatorship and Overexposure: Does Latin America Testify to More than One Market?
Brett Levinson
Telling Tales: Trauma and Testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments
Anne Whitehead
Seduction by Law: Sexual Property and Testimonial Possession in Thereafter Johnnie
Gillian Harkins
Archigraphia: On the Future of Testimony and the Archive to Come
Dragan Kujundzic
The Last Witness: Testimony and Desire in Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘‘Barracoon’’
Genevieve Sexton
Fiction, Death and Testimony: Toward a Politics of the Limits of Thought
Felipe Victoriano
The Inarticulate Affect: Lyotard and Psychoanalytic Testimony
Claire Nouvet
Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Teaching Japanese and Jewish Responses to Twentieth-Century Atrocity
Alan Tansman
When Bombs Fall: Becoming American During the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia (excerpts)
Petar Ramadanovic
Book Review
‘‘A New Connection, a New Set of Recognitions’’: From This Bridge Called My Back to this bridge we call home [Review]
Hector Calderon
Contributors