Insurgent truth Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling / Lida Maxwell.
| Author/creator | Maxwell, Lida |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description | xvi, 202 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Contents | Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Cassandra and Socrates -- Chapter 1: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Truth-Telling -- Chapter 2: Public, Private, Insurgent: What is Outsider Truth-Telling? -- Chapter 3: Chelsea Manning as Transformative Truth-Teller -- Chapter 4: Anonymity as Outsider Tactic: Woolf's "Anon" and Rustin's Quiet Persistence -- Chapter 5: Telling the Truth, Changing the World: Woolf's War Photographs and Manning's Collateral Murder Video -- Chapter 6: "I used to only know how to write memos": The World Building Power of Outsider Security -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Abstract | "This book is about Chelsea Manning's leaking of government documents. Manning told the truth about war and a social order sustained by it. Her truth-telling also revealed the complicity of public and private in casting her - a non-gender-conforming individual - as an improper truth-teller. And Manning's truth-telling unsettled hierarchies of truth-telling that prop up a discriminatory and often oppressive social order. I read Manning not as an isolated political actor, but instead as an outsider truth-teller within a cohort of outsider truth-tellers (such as Virginia Woolf, Bayard Rustin, Audre Lorde), whose practices are distinct yet connected, and whose significance becomes more apparent when read in conjunction with each other"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018058376 |
| ISBN | 9780190920036 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780190920029 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |