Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
Elisabeth Weber teaches German and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include French philosophy and theory, psychoanalysis, and trauma-studies. She is the author of a book on Emmanuel Levinas, Verfolgung and Trauma (Persecution and Trauma). She is the editor of several volumes, including Questioning Judaism and several works by Jacques Derrida. The multiauthored collection Assault on Truth: Torture from the Perspective of the Humanities, coedited with Julie Carlson, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. The multiauthored collection Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Peace and Violence is under consideration. Her current research and teaching focus on the ability of literature and critical theory to explore trauma and human rights and their violations and to question concepts whose definitions have become uncertain, including the concepts of “the human,” “democracy,” “justice,” “rights.”
Elisabeth Weber; Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp. Comparative Literature Studies 1 September 2011; 48 (3): 417–434. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.48.3.0417
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