Prisoners of conscience : moral vernaculars of political agency /
Hauser, Gerard A.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,
c2012.
A study of the rhetoric used by political prisoners and other prisoners of conscience.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-275) and index.
Reclaiming voice -- Human rights and human rights talk -- Thick moral vernacular and human rights -- Parrhesia at Robben Island: prison reform from the inside -- Women of the small zone and a rhetoric of indirection -- Passive aggression of bodily sufficiency: the H-blocks hunger strike of 1981 -- Display rhetoric and the fantasia of demonstrative displays: the dissident rhetoric of prisoner 885/63 -- Quo vadis America?: national conscience in framing prisoner bodies at Abu Ghraib -- The moral vernacular of political agency.
A study of the rhetoric used by political prisoners and other prisoners of conscience.
Communication in politics.
Conscience
Rhetoric