Prisoners of conscience : moral vernaculars of political agency / Gerard A. Hauser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hauser, Gerard A.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication.

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics.

Conscience--Political aspects.

Conscience.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of the discourse of political prisoners as a form of vernacular rhetoric.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Theoretical Probes on a Moral Vernacular Rhetoric of Human Rights

1. Reclaiming Voice

2. Human Rights and Human Rights Talk

3. Thick Moral Vernacular and Human Rights

Part II. Case Studies in a Thick Moral Vernacular of Political Agency

4. Parrhesia at Robben Island: Prison Reform from the Inside

5. Women of the Small Zone and a Rhetoric of Indirection

6. Passive Aggression of Bodily Sufficiency: The H-Blocks Hunger Strike of 1981

7. Display Rhetoric and the Fantasia of Demonstrative Displays: The Dissident Rhetoric of Prisoner 885/63

8. Quo Vadis America: National Conscience in Framing Prisoner Bodies at Abu Ghraib

9. The Moral Vernacular of Political Agency

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613884039

9781283571586

1283571587

9781611171884

1611171881

OCLC:

813844073