Witnessing the socially dead : testimony, violence, and Sarah

This paper critiques the assumption, common in academic studies on survivor testimony, that trauma or pain renders the witness speechless. Through an in-depth analysis of Sarah, an extremely marginalised, socially dead, survivor-witness of multiple violences during times of war and peace in northern...

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Main Author: van Voorthuysen, Hannah
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37374