@inbook{69b594252e7a47e884db5e1a4ab443c6,
title = "Storytelling and Truth-Telling: Testimonial Narratives in The Road to Guant{\'a}namo and Guant{\'a}namo: {\textquoteleft}Honor Bound to Defend Freedom{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "This chapter analyzes two of the earliest cultural productions responding to the prison camps built at Guant{\'a}namo under the War on Terror: the docudrama film The Road to Guant{\'a}namo (2006) and the verbatim play Guant{\'a}namo: {\textquoteleft}Honor Bound to Defend Freedom{\textquoteright} (2004). It discusses testimony as a response to the narratives about the camps offered by the U.S. state, more specifically as a means of countering the characterization of prisoners as anonymous, vicious killers who deserve indefinite detention. Finally, it argues that both of these works expose the camp{\textquoteright}s radical depersonalization, while creating new conditions of possibility by elucidating truths that had been systematically withheld from the public.",
keywords = "Guantanamo, testimony, verbatim play, docudrama film",
author = "Paik, {A. Naomi}",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-62268-2_5",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "978-3-319-62267-5",
series = "New Caribbean Studies",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "121--147",
editor = "Walicek, {Don E.} and Jessica Adams",
booktitle = "Guant{\'a}namo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond",
address = "United Kingdom",
}