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abuse: of human rights,
101; of prisoners,
54–57; sexual,
98adequate witness,
2–6,
76,
78,
100; for Anita Hill,
29,
37,
43,
58; gendered harm and,
5; Kathryn Harrison and,
96; movement of testimony and,
3,
5; for Nafissatou Diallo,
133–35,
137; Oprah Winfrey as,
105; for Rigoberta Menchú,
22,
60,
66,
70–74,
80,
83; state-sanctioned racial violence and,
16adventure philanthropy,
123affect: gender and,
3,
19,
58; literary witness and,
137,
146–47,
150,
157; neoliberal life narrative and,
104,
109–10,
112,
147,
157; race and,
3,
6,
58; rationality and,
49; structures of feeling,
13affirmative action,
35,
51,
57agency: gender and,
2–3,
20,
22,
132,
134,
139,
153–56,
190n18; individual,
8,
66; jurisdiction and,
78; Kathryn Harrison and,
95–96; racism and,
158,
167; Rigoberta Menchú and,
81; sexual,
2; of testimony,
6,
66,
75–78,
145,
154,
172n3Alchemy of Race and Rights,
The (Williams, P.),
143
American Bar Association,
34American Library Association,
89Anderson, Benedict,
184n2Angela’s Ashes (McCourt),
86
Annie John (Kincaid),
149
autobiographical witness,
169–70autobiography: autobiographical fiction,
24,
88,
90,
146–50,
153,
154,
157; confessional compact and,
187n42; gender and,
99–100; law and legal witness and,
9–10,
99–100; liberalism and,
9; memoir and,
87–88; race and,
157,
159,
168–70; self-representation and,
80–81,
99–100; serial,
149;
testimonio and,
64–65Aznárez, Juan Jesús,
180n7
Backlash: The Undeclared War on Women (Faludi),
173n13
Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison),
92
Between the World and Me (Coates),
168
#BlackLivesMatter: embodiment and,
24,
159–61,
163–65; images and,
159–68; incarceration and,
161–62; intersectionality and,
161–66; slavery and,
158–59,
161,
168–70; testimonial networks and,
24,
158,
160–62,
164–65,
168blame,
91; of Anita Hill,
45; language of,
96; sympathy and,
10,
23–35.
See also victim blaming
Borderlands: La Frontera (Anzaldúa),
90
Brave Enough (Strayed),
117
Brown v. Board of Education,
29,
35
Bush, George H. W.,
33,
35
Chronicle of Higher Education,
111
civil rights,
15; Clarence Thomas and,
36,
57; era of,
90Close to the Knives (Wojnarowicz),
92
“Cold Case, A” (Hertzberg),
177n23colonialism: destruction of context for bearing witness and,
2,
9,
62,
64,
68,
77,
123; traumatic aftermath as context for bearing witness and,
147–55consent, interpretation of,
7court of public opinion,
16; credibility and,
23; humanitarianism and,
132; rape discourse and,
136; scandal and,
66; sympathy and,
136credibility,
127,
139; attacks on,
5; court of public opinion and,
23; doubt and,
142cross-racial solidarity,
18Cruel Optimism (Berlant),
11
Dear Sugar (Strayed),
116,
117
Diallo, Nafissatou,
1,
21; adequate witness for,
133–35,
137; doubt and discrediting and,
135–36,
138–40,
142–45; “he said/she said” and,
136; law and legal witness and,
24,
131,
134–45,
158; scandal and,
136,
155; sexual violence and,
24,
135–39,
142,
145,
155; testimonial networks and,
24,
137,
141,
143–45,
155Dictator in the Dock (documentary),
73–74
doubt and discrediting: Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
30–33; gender and race and,
2,
6–7,
9,
130–31,
140–45;
The Kiss and,
23; law and,
143–45; Nafissatou Diallo and,
135–36,
138–40,
142–45; women’s testimony and,
7–8Douglass, Frederick,
9,
99
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Gilbert),
100,
102,
105,
111,
123
Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP),
63Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church,
167embodiment and bodies:
Autobiography of My Mother and,
149; #BlackLivesMatter and,
24,
159–61,
163–65; Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
46,
53; race and gender and,
1,
6; Rigoberta Menchú and,
71–72,
75; of testimony,
4,
21–22,
71–72,
75,
158–59,
172n5empathy,
3,
130–31,
139; of celebrities,
129; as distinct from sympathy,
193n11; Jamaica Kincaid and,
154; sociality and,
25Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),
17,
29,
30,
38,
40ethics,
129; gender and,
16,
44,
158; legal witness and,
142; literary witness and,
3,
14,
24,
87–88,
90,
93,
117,
135,
145–46,
148,
154–56; neoliberalism and,
115–17; neoliberal life narrative and,
89,
92,
95–96,
103,
112,
115–17,
124–25; race and,
15,
158–59,
161,
163–64; of testimony,
80–83; of victim blaming,
7evidence: empirical,
16; physical,
6; rules of,
7,
142
Female Complaint,
The (Berlant),
11
first-person narration,
148forum of judgment,
5,
14,
78,
182n34; Anita Hill and,
44; life writing as,
77; memoir as,
95; Oprah Winfrey and,
108Foucault, Michel,
78,
102
García Arredondo, Pedro,
61gender: affect and,
3,
19,
58; in ancient Greece,
48–49; autobiography and,
99–100; in Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings,
37,
52; doubt and discrediting and,
1–3,
5,
14–17,
66–67,
123,
127,
130–32,
140–45; embodiment and,
1,
6; ethics and,
16,
44,
158; in humanitarian storytelling,
128–32; law and legal witness and,
7–8,
18–19,
172n9,
174n30,
179n40; neoliberal humanitarian narrative and,
123; race and,
18–19,
45,
52,
158–59,
161–66;
testimonio of Rigoberta Menchú and,
83; trauma and,
23,
25,
99–100,
140generational transmission, of trauma,
154genre,
124; confessional compact and,
103; debates about,
60; in humanitarian storytelling,
128–32; judgment of testimony and,
14–15,
64,
70,
139; limitations of,
88,
146–56; marketing and,
111Girl, Interrupted (Kaysen),
86
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (documentary),
73,
182n30
Half the Sky Movement,
129Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Kristof and WuDunn),
23,
128–32,
146
“Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, A” (Garza),
162“he said/she said,”
7,
17,
27,
37,
48; as cultural bias,
45; Nafissatou Diallo and,
136; memoir and,
93; physical evidence and,
6; Rigoberta Menchú and,
82.
See also doubt and discreditingHill, Anita,
1,
17–18,
175n8; adequate witness for,
29,
37,
43,
58; context for testimony of,
77; in cultural memory,
46; image of,
46; life story of,
36–37; scandal and smear campaign against,
42–43,
46,
67–68,
83–84; sexualization of workplace and,
30–31,
36,
38–41,
43–44; testimony of,
10,
22,
27–33,
38–54,
77,
91,
157,
190n25; truth and,
18,
42,
45,
50House on Mango Street,
The (Cisneros),
90
humanitarian narrative,
119–22,
133; genre, affect, and gender in,
128–32; images in testimonial network,
125–27; neoliberalism and,
122–25human rights,
8,
61; abuses of,
101; law and legal witness and,
151–52; literary accounts and,
146–47,
150–51,
153; neoliberal life narrative and,
101,
122–23,
127,
129,
131–32,
139; Rigoberta Menchú and,
59,
61,
66,
70–71,
83
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou),
90
immigration: global crisis and testimony,
5,
21; uses of narrative in asylum-seeking and,
136–39,
141–43,
162Immigration and Naturalization Services,
142incarceration: in ancient Greece,
20; #BlackLivesMatter and,
161–62; Clarence Thomas on,
28,
53–57; current crisis of,
57,
161,
170; prisoner’s rights and,
28,
53–57
judgment,
75; of Anita Hill,
44; collective,
140; as cultural practice,
5; of James Frey,
109–10; memoirs and,
99; standards of,
14; sticky,
6,
81,
172n5; testimony and,
14–15,
64,
70,
139; vulnerability and,
13.
See also forum of judgmentjurisdiction,
94; agency in,
78; Anita Hill and,
43,
44; conceptual issues in,
79; conflicts in,
78; life narrative as,
77; materiality of,
79; Rigoberta Menchú and,
77–84; territoriality of,
79.
See also forum of judgment
Kingston, Maxine Hong,
90kinship: in
Autobiography of My Mother,
146–47,
149–50,
152–53; Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
34–37,
44,
46,
49; queer formations of,
186n22; for Rigoberta Menchú,
64,
68,
72,
82; slavery and colonialism and,
14,
150,
152,
159; violence and,
88,
92–99Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (Donoghue),
85,
87,
96
Landscape for a Good Woman (Steedman),
90
language: of blame,
96; of self-representation,
100; survivor speech,
112.
See also speechlaw and legal witness: Athenian ideals of,
20,
48–49; autobiography and,
9–10,
99–100; burden of proof and,
7,
142; Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
28–34,
38–44,
54–58; contract,
103; doubt and,
7,
143–45; gender and,
7–8,
18–19,
172n9,
174n30,
179n40; human rights and,
151–52; literary witness and,
13–14,
146–47,
151–52,
170; Nafissatou Diallo and,
24,
131,
134–45,
158; public prosecutor and,
178n32; race and,
4,
6,
8–9,
12–13,
18–19,
24,
159–68,
172n9,
178n33,
194n3; Rigoberta Menchú and,
18,
59,
61,
66–67,
71–72,
74–84; rules of evidence and,
3–5,
7,
76,
135,
142; self-incrimination and,
172n3; testimony,
9,
75,
99,
139,
151,
152Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher,
97Lesbian Body (Wittig),
90
Liar’s Club,
The (Karr),
86
literary witness: affect and,
137,
146–47,
150,
157; ethics and,
3,
14,
24,
87–88,
90,
93,
117,
135,
145–46,
148,
154–56; Jamaica Kincaid and,
146–47,
151–55,
169;
The Kiss and,
94,
97; law and legal witness and,
13–14,
146–47,
151–52,
170; trauma and,
147,
150–54,
168Loving in the War Years (Moraga),
90
Loving What Is (Katie),
112
memoir,
14,
51,
77,
81,
182n34; boom/lash and,
85–87; displacement of neoliberal life narratives and,
89–94; “he said/she said” and,
93; James Frey and,
104–10;
The Kiss and,
94–96; neoliberalism and ethics and,
115–17; queer writers and,
86; scandal and,
23; self-help and,
100–103,
111–15; self-representation and,
80–81,
92; sexual violence and,
93,
99; trauma and,
86,
90,
92–93,
97–100,
112; women of color and,
86Menchú, Rigoberta,
14,
17–18,
21–22; agency of,
81; “he said/she said” and,
82; human rights and,
59,
61,
66,
70–71,
83; law and,
18,
59,
61,
66–67,
71–72,
74–84; movement of testimony and,
66–70; on oppression,
83; scandal and,
22–23,
59–60,
66–73,
76–84; testimonial networks and,
60,
66,
68–69,
71,
74–77,
79,
81,
86; testimony of,
59–65,
67–70,
72–73,
76–77,
82–84,
94,
100,
157,
181n17; trauma and,
60,
64,
69–70,
82–84; truth and,
18,
63–65,
67,
81–83,
180–81n14; vindication of,
59–60,
79; visual representation of,
190–91n25Metzenbaum, Howard,
31,
43Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Krakauer),
174nn29–30
Moral Life of Children,
The (Coles),
97
“Naked Literary Come-On, The” (Crossen),
97neoliberalism,
8–9,
15,
17,
22,
186n22; ethics and,
115–17; humanitarian storytelling and,
122–25; race and,
94; self-representation and,
88,
90–94; victim blaming and,
10neoliberal life narrative,
88; affect and,
104,
109–10,
112,
147,
157; ethics and,
89,
92,
95–96,
103,
112,
115–17,
124–25; human rights and,
101,
122–23,
127,
129,
131–32,
139; self-help as,
111–15; sympathy and,
102,
110,
112–13,
120,
124,
127,
129,
132; trauma and,
86,
102,
105–7,
112,
114–15,
117,
123New Earth,
A: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Tolle),
105,
111
New Jim Crow,
The (Alexander),
57
New York Times and
New York Times Magazine,
146–47; Greg Mortenson and,
120;
The Kiss and,
97; Nicholas Kristof and,
8,
128–29; Rigoberta Menchú and,
63–64,
71,
84
Pennies for Peace nonprofit,
189n5Persepolis (Satrapi),
125
punishment,
110; of black male prisoners,
54–56; cruel and unusual,
54–55,
56
Queen of America Goes to Washington City, The (Berlant),
11
race:
Autobiography of My Mother and,
149–50; Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
15–16,
33,
37,
43–45,
52; doubt and discrediting and,
2–3,
5,
14–17,
123,
130–31; gender and,
18–19,
45,
158–59,
161–66; neoliberalism and,
94; Oprah Winfrey and,
105,
110; redemption and,
101,
125; segregation and,
29,
32–33,
35–36,
43–44,
48,
57–58,
74,
161racial violence,
110; black body and,
165; #BlackLivesMatter and,
24,
161; lynching and,
48; sexual harassment and,
52–58; state-sanctioned,
16Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi),
125–26
Real Anita Hill,
The: The Untold Story (Brock),
175n8
redemption narrative: gender and race and,
137,
147,
155–56; neoliberal narrative and,
86–87,
89,
91–94,
96,
101–9,
111,
113–16; witness by proxy and,
123–24,
128–30,
132risk, hyperawareness of,
134Room of One’s Own,
A (Woolf),
169
scandal: Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
41,
44,
57–58,
83–84; discrediting women’s testimony and,
2–3,
5,
7–8,
17,
66–67,
76–77,
81;
The Kiss and,
95–96,
98–100;
A Million Little Pieces and,
101,
108–10; Nafissatou Diallo and,
136,
155; Oprah Winfrey and,
108; Rigoberta Menchú and,
22–23,
59–60,
66–73,
76–84; temporality and,
31–32self-representation: autobiography and,
80–81,
99–100; confessional compact and,
103,
114; feminist dissidence and,
131,
169–70; marginalized identities and,
9,
183n41; memoir and,
80–81; neoliberalism and,
88,
90–94; as political act,
80–81; self-help narratives and,
114–15;
testimonio and,
80–81serial autobiography,
149Sex and the City (Bushnell),
97
sexual violence,
45; doubt and discrediting and,
5–7,
12,
133–45; Nafissatou Diallo and,
24,
135–39,
142,
145,
155; race and class and,
18–19,
174n29; rape culture and,
134,
136,
174n29; rape discourse and,
136; redemption narratives and,
101Signature of All Things,
The (Gilbert),
117
Skylight Productions,
71,
73slavery,
32–33,
58; agency and testimony and,
2,
28–29,
152–54,
161;
Autobiography of My Mother and,
135,
146–55; #BlackLivesMatter and,
158–59,
161,
168–70; in Caribbean,
153; Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
23–24,
28–29,
36–37,
44,
48,
56–57,
74; history of,
2,
9,
15–16,
20,
28,
75,
101,
140; Saidiya Hartman on,
15Small Place,
A (Kincaid),
150,
152
Social Life of Things,
The (Appadurai),
75
Spanish Embassy fire (Guatemala),
60,
61,
63,
72Steubenville, Ohio rape case,
19Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Mortenson),
189n5
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (Mayer and Abramson),
49
strategic essentialism,
131sympathy: blame and,
10,
23–35; dissident accounts and,
80,
155–56; as distinct from empathy,
193n11; literary accounts and,
94,
139,
142,
146,
148,
150,
152,
157; neoliberal life narrative and,
102,
110,
112–13,
120,
124,
127,
129,
132; sexual violence and,
133–39,
142–44,
155
tainted witness,
17–22,
44,
84,
155; Anita Hill as,
29–30,
42,
44–45,
47,
57;
Autobiography of My Mother and,
140; memoir and,
86–87,
93; Nafissatou Diallo as,
136,
138; Oprah Winfrey as,
104,
109–10; Rigoberta Menchú as,
64–67,
70–71,
81–82; witness by proxy and,
132,
155“Tarnished Laureate” (Rohter),
64testimonial network,
4;
Autobiography of My Mother and,
151; #BlackLivesMatter and,
24,
158,
160–62,
164–65,
168; Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and,
29–31,
53,
58; images in,
125–27; literary accounts and,
117; Nafissatou Diallo and,
24,
137,
141,
143–45,
155–56; neoliberal narrative and,
86,
94,
100–101,
114–15; Rigoberta Menchú and,
60,
66,
68–69,
71,
74–77,
79,
81,
86; witness by proxy and,
122–27,
129–32This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga and Anzaldúa),
90
Thomas, Clarence,
10,
15–17,
77,
83–84,
175n8; affirmative action and,
35,
51,
57; civil rights and,
36,
57; confirmation hearings of,
27–35,
37–48,
50,
52,
53,
56–58,
74,
178n27; Eighth Amendment and,
55; emotions of,
53; jurisprudence of,
56; life story of,
34–35; memoir by,
51; Pin Point strategy and,
33,
35,
36,
51Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way (Krakauer),
121
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time (Mortenson and Relin),
8,
23,
119–22,
123,
125
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (Strayed),
116
trauma: gender and,
23,
25,
99–100,
140; generational transmission of,
154; historicization of,
25; literary witness and,
147,
150–54,
168; memoir and,
86,
90,
92–93,
97–100,
112; life narrative and,
86,
102,
105–7,
112,
114–15,
117,
123; Rigoberta Menchú and,
60,
64,
69–70,
82–84truth and testimony,
15–16,
50,
74,
75; forensic,
127; in memoirs,
87–88; narrative,
127; Rigoberta Menchú and,
18,
63–65,
67,
81–83,
180–81n14
violence: legal,
3; police brutality,
12–13,
160
Wall Street Journal,
62,
97
“What They’re Reading on College Campuses,”
111When the Mountain Trembles (documentary),
71–73
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Strayed),
100,
102,
105,
116,
117
Woman Warrior,
The (Kingston),
90
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Lorde),
90