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

Publication Info.	Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in rhetoric/communication
	Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	A study of the rhetoric used by political prisoners and other prisoners of conscience.
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Subject	Communication in politics.
	Communication in politics.
	Conscience -- Political aspects.
	Conscience.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hauser, Gerard A. Prisoners of conscience. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2012 9781611170764 (DLC) 2012019767 (OCoLC)794973733
ISBN	9781611171884 (electronic book)
	1611171881 (electronic book)
	9781611170764
	1611170761
Standard No.	9786613884039