Enabling Impossibility: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Voices of Abu Ghraib Survivors in Philip Metres' "Abu Ghraib Arias"

TitleEnabling Impossibility: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Voices of Abu Ghraib Survivors in Philip Metres' "Abu Ghraib Arias"
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsMeyer, Guilherme E.
JournalWar, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
Volume30
Pagination331 - 334
Date Published01/2018
Abstract

The article discusses the poetic strategy of Philip Metres in the level of torture at the Abu Ghraib's victims. It describes the physical pain that applies to the attempt of inventing linguistic structures to accommodate the experience of torture in poetry. The article also discusses the sworn statements of the detainees at Abu Ghraib prison which created complications in making their testimonies. [Ebsco Host]

URLhttps://www.wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/30/MEYER.pdf
Short TitleWar, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
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