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    Maurice Audin : une victoire by Gilles Manceron

    Published 2018-12-01
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    Gilberte Alleg témoigne… by Gilberte Alleg, Alain Ruscio

    Published 2018-12-01
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    Frames of violence and recent history in Simon Stephens' Motortown by Marion Coste

    Published 2022-01-01
    “…The representation of recent history will be analysed in this paper through the representation of torture, and more specifically the Abu Ghraib scandal, in Simon Stephens’s Motortown (2006). …”
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    When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

    Published 2024-10-01
    “…War often occasions such moments, not just because of the moral and political turmoil that accompanies it or the physical damage it inflicts upon people and their environments, but also because of its absurdity; this latter feature, the absurdity of war, is captured by Stanislav Aseyev, a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer, in his books In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas and The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. In this essay, I argue that Aseyev’s reflections on Russian occupation, imprisonment, and torture demonstrate both the special value of Arendt’s “thinking” for those enduring war and violence and reveal a pre-moral-political capacity of “thinking” latent but never explicit in Arendt’s work: the power to cope with the absurd qua absurd.…”
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    Le jaguar, sujet et objet du sacrifice maya by Claude-François Baudez

    Published 2008-07-01
    “…In Maya iconography, the role of the jaguar as a predator associated with all kinds of violence such as war, sacrifice, torture and self-sacrifice, is well-known. Less obvious is its symmetrical and inverse role of victim, on the altar or on the scaffold. …”
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    Čarodějnické a kouzelnické procesy v zahraniční historiografii: nové perspektivy a úhly pohledu by Zuzana Kobrlová

    Published 2017-10-01
    “…Also some questions concerning, for example, the role of torture or solving the problem whether the processes can be described as a profitable programme of elites are accentuated here. …”
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    La clausura del pasado. Los conflictos del cono sur de América by Juan Rial

    Published 2006-09-01
    “…Latin American dictatorships all practiced some form of "dirty war", that entailed the disappearance of persons, murder and torture, to fight people engaged in armed propaganda or open insurrections taking place in the seventies. …”
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    Une marrane devant le Saint-Office de l’Inquisition, México, 1642-1649. Isabel Tristán, « La Tristana » by Solange Alberro

    Published 2011-12-01
    “…Denounced to the Saint Office by several testimonies, torture didn’t break her, and Tristana didn’t confess anything new to the inquisitors. …”
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