Prisoners of Conscience : Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency /

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A study of the rhetoric used by political prisoners and other prisoners of conscience.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauser, Gerard A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Communication in politics
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Discours politique.
Conscience (Morale) > Aspect politique.
Communication politique.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Conscience > Political aspects.
Communication in politics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reclaiming voice
  • Human rights and human rights talk
  • Thick moral vernacular and human rights
  • Parrhesia at Robben Island: prison reform from the inside
  • Women of the small zone and a rhetoric of indirection
  • Passive aggression of bodily sufficiency: the H-blocks hunger strike of 1981
  • Display rhetoric and the fantasia of demonstrative displays: the dissident rhetoric of prisoner 885/63
  • Quo vadis America?: national conscience in framing prisoner bodies at Abu Ghraib
  • The moral vernacular of political agency.

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