This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compel
This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compel
The first and only memoir about the reeducation camps by a Uyghur woman. "I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality."-- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region to "re-education camps." The brutal repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide, and reported widely in media around the world. The Xinjiang Papers, revealed by the New York Times in 2019, reveal the brutal repression of the Uyghur ethnicity by means of forced mass detention--the biggest since the time of Mao. Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman to escape from the Chinese re-education camps who has dared to speak out. For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under blinding neon light in her prison cell