Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency

Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)

Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the discourse of prisoners of conscience, as a form of rhetoric in which the vernacular is the main source of available appeals and the foundation for political agency.

Hauser explores how modes of resistance employed by these prisoners constitute what he deems a "thick moral vernacular" rhetoric of human rights. Hauser's work considers in part how these prisoners convert universal commitments to human dignity, agency, and voice into the moral vernacular of the society and culture to which their rhetoric is addressed.

Hauser grounds his study through a series of case studies, each centered on a different rhetorical mechanism brought to bear in the act of resistance. Through a transnational rhetorical analysis of resistance within political prisons, Hauser brings to bear his skills as a rhetorical theorist and critic to illuminate the rhetorical power of resistance as tied to core questions in contemporary humanistic scholarship and public concern.

2013 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award

2013 National Communication Association's Winans-Herbert Award
Country USA
Brand University of South Carolina Press
Manufacturer University of South Carolina Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-03-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781611174380

Country	USA
Brand	University of South Carolina Press
Manufacturer	University of South Carolina Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2014-03-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781611174380

Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)

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