Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Violent rhetorical ecologies -- Habits of violence: lynching as anti-deliberative epideixis -- "There must be a way of carrying it out": ideal and real in lethal injection -- Spectacular violence, mundane resistance -- Loss and critical memorialization -- Conclusion: Working through rhetoric and violence.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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