Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. For the Humanities 1
5. Part One. America Tortures
6. Chapter 1. An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception, and Denial 19
7. Chapter 2. In the Minotaur’s Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History 37
8. Part Two. Singularities of Witness
9. Chapter 3. Torture and Societ 61
10. Chapter 4. What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell Us about Torture Today 70
11. Chapter 5. “Torture Was the Essence of National Socialism”: Reading Jean Améry Today 83
12. Chapter 6. “What Did the Corpse Want?” Torture in Poetry 99
13. Part Three. Graphic Assaults, Sensory Overload
14. Chapter 7. Painting Against Torture 111
15. Chapter 8. Torture and Representation: The Art of Détournement 115
16. Chapter 9. Waterboarding: Political and Sacred Torture 129
17. Chapter 10. Damnatio Memoriae 140
18. Chapter 11. Rituals of Hegemonic Masculinity: Cinema, Torture, and the Middle East 162
19. Chapter 12. Music and Torture: The Stigmata of Sound and Sense 189
20. Chapter 13. The Language of Feeling Made into a Weapon: Music as an Instrument of Torture 205
21. Part Four. Declassifying Writing
22. Chapter 14. Romantic Poet Legislators: An End of Torture 221
23. Chapter 15. The Fine Details: Torture and the Social Order 247
24. Chapter 16. Reasonable Torture, or the Sanctities 273
25. Chapter 17. John Yoo, the Torture Memos, and Ward Churchill: Exploring the Outer Limits of Academic Freedom 286
26. Notes 305
27. Contributors 361
28. Index 367