Witness to Pain

The Editor: Nieves Pascual graduated at the University of Granada in English Philology in 1989. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Complutense University in Madrid. She is Associate Professor of NorthAmerican Literature at the University of Jaén, Spain. For seven years she has been working on the effects of illness on the process of creation and has published her research in Style, Mosaic, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses and the Journal of Intercultural Studies. She is currently working on a monograph on hunger, women and postcolonial literatures.

Contents: Mark Mossman: Pleasure, Pain, and the Discourse of Industry: The disabled body as cultural object - Ángel Cagigas: Pain as Expression: The Case of Hysteria - Nieves Pascual: Photographs as Prostheses - Dana Milstein: Pain is a Preposition - Eluned Summers-Bremner: Sleep's Guile: Insomnia and the Work of Art - Kerstin Bergman: Under the Aspect of Pain - Valérie de Courville Nicol: From Pain to Pleasure: Moral Education through Sublime Terror in The Mysteries of Udolpho - Markus Rheindorf: 'To survive war, you gotta' become war'. The Productivity of Pain in Mainstream Action Films - Isabel Capeloa Gil: Femina Monstruosa: Femininity as Trauma in Robinson Jeffers' Medea and George Tabori's M.