Torture and textuality: Guantánamo Diary as postcolonial text.
This article offers a reading of Guantánamo Diary that aims at decentring left critiques of the war on terror by offering a postcolonial perspective of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's important testimony of forced disappearance and torture. The analysis is an exploration of textuality in Guantánamo Diary tha...
| Publicado en: | Textual Practice Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 1061 - 1081 |
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