Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

by Alex Adams

Book Overview

Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested.

Adams explores whether liberal democracies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367876582
• ISBN13: 9780367876586
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"