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Rhetoric in the Time of Torture - Laura A. Sparks

Rhetoric in the Time of Torture

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Buch | Hardcover
152 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2180-9 (ISBN)
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Rhetoric in the Time of Torture offers a renewed attention to the rhetorical and temporal dimensions of torture, in light of the U.S.’s post-9/11 reliance on heavy interrogation techniques. Laura A. Sparks highlights where rhetorical theory fits into a world in which people torture others to make them speak.
In Rhetoric in the Time of Torture, Laura A. Sparks investigates how rhetoric and interrogational torture are imbricated with one another, troubling clear distinctions between persuasion and violence. In light of the U.S. government’s post-9/11 reliance on heavy interrogation techniques, Sparks offers a renewed attention to the rhetorical and temporal dimensions of torture, including the ways in which techniques utilized by military interrogators are intertwined with violent action. The author introduces compelling temporal logics related to imminence, surveillance, and prisoners’ world-times, among others, illuminating how temporal concerns figure in both justifications for and practices of torture. In addition, this book offers a range of case studies, including select torture memos, photographs from Abu Ghraib Detention Center, and opportunities for digital human rights advocacy, to demonstrate how recognizing torture’s rhetorical and temporal dimensions is crucial to our understanding and critique of interrogational torture in the present day. Ultimately, Sparks invites readers to consider where rhetoric fits in a world where people torture others to make them speak. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, and political science would find this book of particular interest.

Laura A. Sparks is associate professor of English at California State University.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: We Don’t Torture; Or, the Problem of Correspondence

Chapter 2: The Temporal Logic of Interruption

Chapter 3: Imminent Time and the Bureaucratic Groundwork

Chapter 4: Prisoner Time; Or, the Time that Unmakes the World

Chapter 5: Surveillance Time and Material Traces

Chapter 6: Making Advocacy

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Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 240 mm
Gewicht 413 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-6669-2180-7 / 1666921807
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-2180-9 / 9781666921809
Zustand Neuware
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