James Arnold Dawes

The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II

The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II

That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity

The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II

The Language of War examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical ...

That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity

Listen to a short interview with James Dawes Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane After the worst thing in the world happens, then what? What is left to the survivors, the witnesses, those who tried to help? What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to st...

Evil Men

Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. Drawin...

James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity.(Book review): An article from: Biography

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Evil Men

Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, "Evil Men" confronts atrocity head-on how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. Drawi...