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245 14 $aThe body in pain :$bthe making and unmaking of the world /$cElaine Scarry.
250 $a1st Oxford University Press paperback.
260 $aNew York, NY ;$aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c1987, c1985
300 $aix, 385 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes biblipographical references (p.327-372)and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction ---- Part One. Unmaking. 1. Structure of torture : the conversion of real pain into the fiction power --- 2. The structure of war : the juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues ---- Part Two. Making. 3. Pain and imaging --- 4. The structure of belief and its modulation into material making : body and voice in the Judeo-Christian scriptures and the writings of Marx --- 5. The interior structure of the artifact.
520 $aPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Henry Kissinger. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain difficult to describe in words, it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme cases to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry goes on to analyse the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of warfare and torture, and she demonstrates how political regimes use the power of physical pain to attack and break down the sufferer's sense of self. Finally she turns to examples of artistic and cultural activity; actions achieved in the face of pain and difficulty.
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