Human Rights Rhetoric (eBook, ePUB)

Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing
Redaktion: Lyon, Arabella; Olson, Lester C

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This brief collection introduces rhetoric as a critical orientation to understanding acts of human rights witnessing.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135706630
• Artikelnr.: 57101088

Autorenporträt

Arabella Lyon has published recent essays on comparative rhetoric, human rights, and Chinese communication. Her book Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored won the Ross Winterowd Award for the Outstanding Book in Rhetoric and Composition. Currently she is completing a manuscript entitled Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rights, and Rhetoric. Lester C. Olson's books include Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era (1991), Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community (2004), and, with co-editors Cara A. Finnegan and Diane S. Hope, Visual Rhetoric (2007). His essays concerning Audre Lorde's advocacy appear in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy & Rhetoric, American Voices, Queering Public Address, and The Responsibilities of Rhetoric.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing
Arabella Lyon & Lester C. Olson Chapter 2. Human Rights and Civil Rights:
The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers Jacqueline
Jones Royster & Molly Cochran Chapter 3. ''From the Eye to the Soul'':
Industrial Labor's Mary Harris ''Mother'' Jones and the Rhetorics of
Display Mari Boor Tonn Chapter 4. Rights Language and HIV Treatment:
Universal Care or Population Control? Cindy Patton Chapter 5. A Question of
Confession's Discovery Erik Doxtader Chapter 6. Human Rights Rhetoric of
Recognition Wendy S. Hesford Chapter 7. Human Rights Rhetoric: A Visual
Sequence Lester C. Olson & Arabella Lyon