The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi Deaf Walls Speak

Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist...

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Other Authors: Moore, Alexandra S. (Editor), Swanson, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Editor’s Introduction The Guantánamo Artwork of Moath al-Alwi: Art as Expression, Witness, Evidence Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth Swanson
  • Chapter 1: Artmaking at Guantánamo: A Ship Expresses Rescue Moath al-Alwi
  • Chapter 2: My Brother, the Artist Mansoor Adayfi
  • Chapter 3: APPROVED BY U.S. FORCES: Showing Art from Guantánamo Erin L. Thompson
  • Chapter 4: From Wasting Away to a Way with Waste: The Visibility of Moath al-Alwi's Hunger and Sculpture Joshua O. Reno
  • Chapter 5: Ships of Scraps: Moath al-Alwi’s Model Ships in Islamic Art and Prison Histories Mira Rai Waits
  • Chapter 6: Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi’s Ships Belinda Walzer
  • Chapter 7: A Sea without a Shore: Building an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay Safiyah Rochelle
  • Chapter 8: Assemblage by Necessity: The Maritime Sculpture of Moathal-Alwi Gail Rothschild.