Format:
1 Online-Ressource (143 pages)
ISBN:
0814277675
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9780814277676
Series Statement:
New directions in rhetoric and materiality
Content:
"Examines the rhetoric around spectacles of organized public violence in lynching, capital punishment, and the torture in the War on Terror. Argues for an ecological approach to the ways rhetoric and violence function together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges for antiviolence work"--
Content:
"Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States examines violent spectacles and their quotidian manifestations in order to better understand violence's cultural work and persistence. Starting with the supposition that violence is communicative and meant to "send a message"--be it to deter, to scare, or to threaten--Megan Eatman goes one step further to argue that violence needs to be understood on a deeper level: as direct, structural, cultural, and constitutive across modes, a formulation that requires rethinking its rhetorical aims as less about conscious persuasion and more about the gradual shaping of public identity. While Eatman looks to examples of violent spectacles to make her case (lynching, capital punishment, and torture in the War on Terror), it is in her analysis of more mundane responses to these forms of violence (congressional debates, court documents, visual art, and memorial performance) where the key to her argument lies--as she shows how circulating violence in these ways produces violent rhetorical ecologies that facilitate some modes of being while foreclosing others. Through this ecological approach, Ecologies of Harm offers a new understanding of the debates surrounding legacies of violence, examines how rhetoric and violence function together, and explores implications of their entanglement for antiviolence work." -- Publisher's description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index
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Half Title Page -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Violent Rhetorical Ecologies -- CHAPTER 1 Habits of Violence: Lynching as Anti-Deliberative Epideixis -- CHAPTER 2 "There Must Be a Way of Carrying It Out": Ideal and Real in Lethal Injection -- CHAPTER 3 Spectacular Violence, Mundane Resistance -- CHAPTER 4 Loss and Critical Memorialization -- CONCLUSION Working through Rhetoric and Violence -- Works Cited -- Index -- Series Page
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eatman, Megan Ecologies of Harm : Rhetorics of Violence in the United States Chicago : Ohio State University Press, ©2020 ISBN 9780814214343
Language:
English
