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Overview"In the wake of Abu Ghraib, Americans have struggled to understand what happened in the notorious prison and why. In this elegant series of essays, inflected with a radical Catholic philosophy, David Griffith contends that society's shift from language to image has changed the way people think about violence and cruelty, and that a disconnect exists between images and reality. Griffith meditates on images and literature, finding potent insight into what went wrong at the prison in the works of Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, and especially Flannery O'Connor, who often explored the gulf between proclamations of faith and the capacity for evil. Accompanying the essays are illustrated facts about torture, lists of torture methods and their long-term effects, and graphics such as the schematics of the pain pathways"" in the human body. Together, the images and essays endow the human being with the complexity images alone deny." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David GriffithPublisher: Soft Skull Press Imprint: Soft Skull Press Dimensions: Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 13.90cm Weight: 0.211kg ISBN: 9781933368122ISBN 10: 1933368128 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 04 August 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDave Griffith is the author of A Good War is Hard to Find- The Art of Violence in America. His work has appeared in the Utne Reader, Paris Review Daily, Image, The Normal School, Creative Nonfiction, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is at work on a book titled Pyramid Scheme- Making Art and Being Broke in America. He lives in Michigan with his wife, the writer Jessica Mesman Griffith, and their two children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |