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Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

Wendy Hesford

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Description for Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms Paperback. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Spectacular Rhetorics is a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law, shape the process of cultural and legal recognition, and delimit public responses to violence and injustice. Integrating visual and textual criticism, Wendy S. Hesford scrutinizes “spectacular rhetoric,” the use of visual images and rhetoric to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners, chiefly Americans. Hesford presents a series of case studies critiquing the visual representations of human suffering in documentary films, photography, and theater. In each study, she analyzes works addressing a ... Read more

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Paperback

Publication date

2011

Publisher

Duke University Press United States

Number of pages

296

Condition

New

Series

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Number of Pages

296

Place of Publication

North Carolina, United States

ISBN

9780822349518

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V9780822349518

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About Wendy Hesford

Wendy S. Hesford is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy, a co-author of Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture, and a co-editor of Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation and Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the ... Read more

Reviews for Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

“Hesford’s insistence that we turn the gaze onto ourselves must be heeded if truth is to be valued within human rights discourses and movements. In the spirit of liberation psychology which seeks to expose ‘spectacular’ acts of bystanding through a holistic understanding of collective trauma (see Watkins & Shulman, 2008), such a call for the transformation of passive spectator to ... Read moreactive witness demands that truth-telling actors of all kinds embrace more self-reflexive and critically conscious relationships with the subjects of their narratives, and reflect deeply on their research methodologies and representational choices. That is, indeed, a tall order for artists, activists, and scholars, but one certainly worth undertaking.” - Erin Kamler, International Journal of Communication “Hesford alerts readers to the covert ways in which power structures and practices are concealed, reinforced, and deployed in multiple ways through the representation of identified ‘others’ (nations, communities, and subjects. . . . Recommended.” - A. B. Commissiong, Choice “Spectacular Rhetorics is an impressive literary analysis of the power-laden rhetorical strategies that shape the global human rights regime. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in feminist, postcolonial and cultural studies as well as to individuals working in the field of human rights.” - Leela Fernandes, International Feminist Journal of Politics “Spectacular Rhetorics is a timely and resonant book. . . . Hesford’s book deserves this time, thought, and celebration.” - Kerry L. Bystrom, Human Rights Quarterly “Spectacular Rhetorics provides an important analytical framework for understanding the role of visual representation in human rights discourses. With insights from feminist rhetorical studies, Wendy S. Hesford explains how spectators are produced around human rights issues from the global sex trade to rape as an instrument of warfare. Her analysis of documentary films on human rights issues is particularly astute and insightful and relevant for all those interested in contemporary feminist politics.”—Inderpal Grewal, author of Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms “Wendy S. Hesford’s book is a provoking and versatile move beyond human rights as a largely juridical, text-centered idiom tied to the Kantian enlightenment. Her use of social rhetoricity allows her to traverse both the field of the visual and the textual and in doing so to bring under scrutiny occluded realist and gendered ontologies anchoring both the humanitarian graphosphere and iconosphere. The writing eloquently and critically moves across the screened-off yet determining frames of media advocacy, traumatic memory, practice-led media work, and occulted geographies of the gaze. Hesford delivers a theory of human rights as visual citizenship and as a politicized aesthetic cosmopolitanism.”—Allen Feldman, New York University “Spectacular Rhetorics is a timely and resonant book. . . . Hesford’s book deserves this time, thought, and celebration.”
Kerry L. Bystrom
Human Rights Quarterly
“Spectacular Rhetorics is an impressive literary analysis of the power-laden rhetorical strategies that shape the global human rights regime. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in feminist, postcolonial and cultural studies as well as to individuals working in the field of human rights.”
Leela Fernandes
International Feminist Journal of Politics
“Hesford alerts readers to the covert ways in which power structures and practices are concealed, reinforced, and deployed in multiple ways through the representation of identified ‘others’ (nations, communities, and subjects. . . . Recommended.”
A. B. Commissiong
Choice
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