Humanities Research Vol XIV. No. 2. 2007
Pain and Death
Table of Contents
Preliminary Pages
Contributors
Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities
‘A Dark Cloud Will Go Over’
Juridical Indistinction
Medical death, violent death
Legal Execution
Life in the Death House
On Peckerwood Hill
Note
‘One Centre-Zip White’
The Media and the Death Penalty
Introduction
Mediating the Death Penalty
Mobilising Sentiment in the Van Nguyen Case
From Sentimentality to Abjection: the Case of Edith Thompson
Conclusion
100 Days in Rwanda, 1994
Violence, Creativity, Responsibility
Rwandan Genocide: Work of Death, Works of Art
Trauma Aesthetic: Voyeurism, Redemption and Internationalisation of Conscience
Strange Affiliations, Aesthetic Configurations: Courtemanche’s Redeemed Kigali
Hospitality in the Midst of Terror: Aesthetic Distance and Ethical Engagement in
Hotel Rwanda
Postscript
The Linen Memorial
Description