The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi

Deaf Walls Speak
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-37655-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 378 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights

Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s 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-Alwi’s testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swanson, Elizabeth

Moore, Alexandra S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s Introduction The Guantánamo Artwork of Moath al-Alwi: Art as Expression, Witness, Evidence Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth Swanson.- Chapter 1: Artmaking at Guantánamo: A Ship Expresses Rescue Moath al-Alwi.- Chapter 2: My Brother, the Artist Mansoor Adayfi.- Chapter 3: APPROVED BY U.S. FORCES: Showing Art from Guantánamo Erin L. Thompson.- Chapter 4: From Wasting Away to a Way with Waste: The Visibility of Moath al-Alwi's Hunger and Sculpture Joshua O. Reno.- Chapter 5: Ships of Scraps: Moath al-Alwi’s Model Ships in Islamic Art and Prison Histories Mira Rai Waits.- Chapter 6: Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi’s Ships Belinda Walzer.- Chapter 7: A Sea without a Shore: Building an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay Safiyah Rochelle.- Chapter 8: Assemblage by Necessity: The Maritime Sculpture of Moathal-Alwi Gail Rothschild.

Über Autor(innen)

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.