Trials, Torture and Truth

In Idelber Avelar’s The Five Theses on Torture, the author expands upon the relationship between torture and language. As the topic for my ...

            In his fourth thesis, Avelar criticizes Dorfman’s film version of Death and the Maiden .  He states that the film takes the pre...

The Five Theses on Torture by Idelber Avelar focuses on the representation of torture by names, the connection between torture and the voice...

Avelar's Second Thesis delves back into the analysis of the relationship between Torture and Voice. It brings us back to the works of E...

In "Five Theses on Torture", Idelbar Abelar, among other arguments, makes a case for the connection between torture and truth by ...

Avelar borrows one of the main points from Foucault's argument in "Discipline and Punish". Avelar claims that the "modern...

One point in Five Theses on Torture which really struck me as significant was when Idelber Avelar mentions the legacies of dictatorships.  N...