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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 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