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spectacular rhetorics S P E C T A C U L A R Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies A series edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman R H E T O R I C S human rights visions, recognitions, feminisms wendy s. hesford duke university press | durham and london © 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Typeset in Arno by Copperline Book Services, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U e ku D .1 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Hesford, Wendy, and Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics : Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, Duke University For my daughters, Mia and Lou Fei Cariello And in memory of my father, David Hesford (1936–2010) .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U e ku D .1 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Hesford, Wendy, and Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics : Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, Duke University .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U e ku D .1 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Hesford, Wendy, and Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics : Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, Duke University contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 one Human Rights Visions and Recognitions 29 two Staging Terror Spectacles 61 three Witnessing Rape Warfare: Suspending the Spectacle 93 four Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities 125 five Spectacular Childhoods: Sentimentality and the Politics of (In)visibility 151 Conclusion: Posthumanism, Human Rights, and the Humanities 189 Notes 205 References 233 Index 257 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U e ku D .1 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Hesford, Wendy, and Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics : Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, Duke University .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP ytisre vin U e ku D .1 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Hesford, Wendy, and Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics : Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, Duke University acknowledgments This book investigates how visual rhetoric has shaped the normative frame- works of international human rights law and advocacy, and how human rights principles are culturally translated into a visual vernacular that imag- ines Western audiences — generally American audiences — as moral view- ers. To emphasize the rhetorical dimensions of human rights work is not to diminish or deny its material impetus or consequences, however. First and foremost, I acknowledge the individuals whose lives have become a part of a cultural production, human rights campaign, or scholarly pursuit such as this book represents. Though these cultural productions have kept me at a safe distance from the violence that many of the subjects represented have experienced, I want to acknowledge the sufering of those whose human rights have been violated and the courage of human rights defenders to speak out even when the risks are severe. Indeed, this safe and critical dis- tance has enabled me to devote a signifcant portion of the last six years to beter understanding the visual economy of human rights and to contem- plating how scholars, activists, and artists (which are not mutually exclusive categories) respond to crises in ways that make the progressive potential of human rights imaginable for all. In this book, I examine a number of cultural sites (flm festivals, photo- .d graphic exhibitions, and theater productions) that I have had the privilege e vrese to enter, given my institutional afliations and research support. The Ohio r sth State University (OSU), in Columbus, provided research and travel support g ir llA through the Departments of English and Women’s Studies, and the College .sserP of Humanities. I especially want to thank Valerie Lee for her unfinching ytisre support during her term as chair of the Department of English, and col- vinU leagues in English, comparative studies, and women’s studies for their in- e ku tellectual engagement and friendship. A special thanks to my colleagues in D .1 10 English — particularly Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Jim Fredal, Kay Halasek, 2 © th Nan Johnson, Jim Phelan, and Amy Shuman — who devoted considerable g iryp time to reading portions of this manuscript at critical junctures, and whose o C interventions made this a beter book. Thanks to colleagues in comparative Hesford, Wendy, and Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics : Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms, Duke University
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