Deaf Walls Speak presents an insiders view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the worlds most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human. The book juxtaposes detainee artist Moath al-Alwis testimony and artwork with essays that situate his work within legal, political, aesthetic, and material contexts to demonstrate that artwork at Guantánamo constitutes important forms of material witnessing to human rights abuses perpetrated and denied by the U.S. government.
Editors Introduction The Guantánamo Artwork of Moath al-Alwi: Art as
Expression, Witness, Evidence Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth
Swanson.- Chapter 1: Artmaking at Guantánamo: A Ship Expresses Rescue Moath
al-Alwi.- Chapter 2: My Brother, the Artist Mansoor Adayfi.- Chapter
3: APPROVED BY U.S. FORCES: Showing Art from Guantánamo Erin L.
Thompson.- Chapter 4: From Wasting Away to a Way with Waste: The Visibility
of Moath al-Alwi's Hunger and Sculpture Joshua O. Reno.- Chapter 5: Ships of
Scraps: Moath al-Alwis Model Ships in Islamic Art and Prison Histories Mira
Rai Waits.- Chapter 6: Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath
al-Alwis Ships Belinda Walzer.- Chapter 7: A Sea without a Shore: Building
an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay Safiyah Rochelle.- Chapter
8: Assemblage by Necessity: The Maritime Sculpture of Moathal-Alwi Gail
Rothschild.
Alexandra S. Moore is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Binghamton University. Elizabeth Swanson is Professor of Literature and Human Rights at Babson College.
