Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain (Warwick Series in the Humanities)

"Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the current research on pain from a variety of scholarly angles within literature, film and media, game studies, art history, Hispanic studies, memory studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and law. Through the combination of these perspectives, this volume goes beyond the existing structures within and across these disciplines framing new concepts of pain in attitude, practice, language, and ethics of response to pain. Comprised of fourteen unique essays, Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain maintains a common thread of analysis using a historical and cultural lens to explore the rhetoric of pain. Considering various methodologies, this volume questions the ethical, social and political demands pain makes upon those who feel, watch or speak it. Arranged to move from historical cases and relevance of pain in history towards the contemporary movement, topics include pain as a social figure, rhetorical tool, artistic metaphor, and political representation in jurisprudence"--Page i Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Contributors 10 Acknowledgments 14 Introduction to Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain 16 1 Visualising Pain: A History of Representations of Suffering in Medical Texts 26 2 Mirrors and Shadows: Photography as a Way of Sharing Pain Experience in Medical Pain Consultations 50 3 Atrocity and the Pain in Law 66 4 Choked by the Brutal Fact of Being: The Concept of Pain in the Early Works of Emmanuel Levinas 84 5 ‘I Honestly Felt Sick’: Affect and Pain in Viewers’ Responses to Holocaust Films 98 6 Memory Beyond the Anthropocene: The Tactile Rhetorics of Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz and El botón de nácar 116 7 The Proper Name of Our Dispossession: Notes on Filming the Blood of the Martyrs of the Arab Revolutions 135 8 ‘Needs to Be Done’: The Representation of Torture in Video Games and in Metal Gear Solid V 152 9 Narratives of Pain, Apology, and Silence in Filmic Re-Representations of Forgiveness: The South African Rainbow 174 10 Notes toward a Working Definition of Mopecore 192 11 Pain and Writing: An Interview with Diamela Eltit 208 Introduced by La narrativa de Diamela Eltit: escritura antes que literatura 208 12 Translating Pain 236 Index 244 Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the current research on pain from a variety of scholarly angles within Literature, Film and Media, Game Studies, Art History, Hispanic Studies, Memory Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Law. Through the combination of these perspectives, this volume goesbeyond the existing structures within and across these disciplines framing new concepts of pain in attitude, practice, language, and ethics of response to pain. Comprised of fourteen unique essays, __Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain__ maintains a common thread of analysis using a historical and cultural lens to explore the rhetoric of pain. Considering various methodologies, this volumequestions the ethical, social and political demands pain makes upon those who feel, watch or speak it. Arranged to move from historical cases and relevance of pain in history towards the contemporary movement, topics include pain as a social figure, rhetorical tool, artistic metaphor, and political representation in jurisprudence.