Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms by Hesford, Wendy
Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms by Hesford, Wendy

Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

Spectacular Rhetorics is a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law,...
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Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms by Hesford, Wendy

Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

$86.86
Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms by Hesford, Wendy

Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

$86.86
Author: Wendy Hesford
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Spectacular Rhetorics is 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 visual and textual criticism, Wendy S. Hesford scrutinizes "spectacular rhetoric," the use of visual images and rhetoric 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 documentary films, photography, and theater. In each study, she analyzes works addressing a prominent contemporary human rights cause, such as torture and unlawful detention, ethnic genocide and rape as a means of warfare, migration and the trafficking of women and children, the global sex trade, and child labor. Through these studies, she demonstrates how spectacular rhetoric activates certain cultural and national narratives and social and political relations, consolidates identities through the politics of recognition, and configures material relations of power and difference to produce and, ultimately, to govern human rights subjects.

Author: Wendy Hesford
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 07/15/2011
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822349518


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About the Author

Wendy S. Hesford is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy, a co-author of Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture, and a co-editor of Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation and Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real."


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