Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899–2008

Katrin Dauenhauer is a lecturer at the University of Bonn’s North American Studies Program. Her research focuses on American politics and culture, international relations, and human rights.

• Contents: Introduction: Debating US Torture in Military Interventions, 1899-2008 – «Curing» the Natives: Debating US Torture During the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 – Forgetting/Rewriting/Reclaiming: Shadows of the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 – To Tell or Not to Tell: American Atrocities in Vietnam – Framing the Human: Reading North Vietnamese Torture in POW Narratives of the Vietnam War – Abu Ghraib and the (Unexceptional) Rhetoric of the Exceptional.

«Insgesamt leistet Katrin Dauenhauer mit ihrer Studie einen intelligenten und weiterführenden Beitrag zur Historisierung der Folterdebatten zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts.»(Sylvia Kesper-Biermann, sehepunkte 15/2015)