| Description |
1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in literature, culture and human rights |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Releasing Art and Testimony from Guantánamo -- Notes on Process: Voice, Timeline, and Translation -- A Very Incomplete Chronology of Moath al-Alwi's Artwork -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath al-Alwi -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Guantánamo Artwork of Moath al-Alwi: Art as Expression, Witness, Evidence -- Carceral and Evidentiary Aesthetics -- Calling Forth a Public -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Artmaking at Guantánamo: A Ship Expresses Rescue |
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A Ship Expresses Rescue: The Ark -- Gondola -- GIANT -- Eagle King -- Witnesses -- Chapter 3: My Brother, the Artist -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: "APPROVED BY US FORCES": Showing and Hiding Art from Guantánamo -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: From Wasting Away to a Way with Waste: The Visibility of Moath al-Alwi's Hunger and Sculpture -- Introduction -- Wasting Away as Resource: The Hunger Strike -- Imprisonment and Art (with Some Help from Hannah Arendt) -- Moath al-Alwi's viva activa -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Ships of Scraps: Moath's Model Ships in Islamic Art and Prison Histories |
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Moath and Islamic Visual Traditions -- Moath and Prison Histories of Making -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi's Ships -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: A Sea Without a Shore: Toward Building an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay -- The Visual and the Archive -- Art, Visuality, and the Law -- "To get [a] soul out of prison": The Art, the Stamp, and the Ban -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Assemblage by Necessity: The Maritime Sculpture of Moath al-Alwi -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
Deaf Walls Speak presents an insiders view of artmaking in Guantnamo, the worlds most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath al-Alwis testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantnamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government. Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University. Elizabeth Swanson is Professor of Literature and Human Rights at Babson College |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2023) |
| Subject |
Al-Alwi, Moath
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| SUBJECT |
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp fast |
| Subject |
Human rights in art.
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Prisoners as artists.
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Prisoners as artists
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Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84038876
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| Subject |
Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, Alexandra Schultheis, editor.
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Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031376566 |
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3031376560 |
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