Spectacular Rhetorics Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

Name: Spectacular Rhetorics Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms
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ISBN: 9780822349518

ISBN-10: 0822349515

ISBN-13: 9780822349518

Edition: 2011

Authors: Wendy Hesford

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Spectacular Rhetoricsis a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law, shape the process of cultural and legal recognition, and delimit public responses to violence and injustice. Integrating the criticism of visual culture and the interpretation of written texts, Wendy Hesford scrutinizes ;spectacular rhetoric, ; the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners, chiefly Americans. Hesford presents a series of case studies critiquing the visual representations of human suffering in particular cultural artifacts,…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Human Rights Visions and Recognitions



Staging Terror Spectacles



Witnessing Rape Warfare: Suspending the Spectacle



Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities



Spectacular Childhoods: Sentimentality and the Politics of (In)visibility


Conclusion: Posthumanism, Human Rights, and the Humanities


Notes


References


Index