Documenting Violations: Rhetorical Witnessing and the Spectacle of Distant Suffering

TitleDocumenting Violations: Rhetorical Witnessing and the Spectacle of Distant Suffering
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsWendy S. Hesford
JournalBiography
Volume27
Issue1
Pagination104-144
ISSN1529-1456
Abstract

Abstract If one of the prominent rhetorical features in human rights documentaries is to create a rhetorical space of intersubjectivity—of bearing witness—how to account for ruptures in identification? Hesford explores the documentation of rape warfare and ethnic violence as human rights violations and the ethical challenges such representations pose for us as witnesses, and as scholars, teachers, and members of the international community.

URLhttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v027/27.1hesford.html
DOI10.1353/bio.2004.0034
Short TitleDocumenting Violations
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