Date of Submission
Spring 2011
Academic Program
Human Rights
Advisor
Thomas Keenan
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This paper explores the importance of witnessing, the necessity of testimony, and the predicaments and problems inherent to both of these acts, using memoirs and poetry written during the Dirty Wars of the Southern Cone and the detention of "enemy combatants" since 9/11 in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Recommended Citation
Bessel, Sarah E., "Breaking Down Testimony: Remembering, Reliving, and Representing" (2011). Senior Projects Spring 2011. 46.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2011/46
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