Bradford Vivian

Commonplace Witnessing

Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780190611088
• ISBN-10: 0190611081
• Artikelnr.: 47863315

Autorenporträt

Bradford Vivian is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. His previous books include Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again (Penn State University Press, 2010), and his past honors include a Faculty Fellowship with the Center for Humanities and Information and a National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Invention: Booker T. Washington's Cotton States
Exposition Address
Chapter 2: Authenticity: Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments
Chapter 3: Regret: George W. Bush's Gorée Island Address
Chapter 4: Habituation: The National September 11 Memorial
Chapter 5: Impossibility
Conclusion
Bibliography