Commonplace witnessing rhetorical invention historical remembrance and public culture 1st Edition by Bradford Vivian ISBN 9780190611088 978-0190611088

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ISBN 10: 9780190611088 

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Author: Bradford Vivian

 Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so. Commonplace Witnessing presupposes that witnessing in modern public culture is a broad and inclusive rhetorical act; that many different types of historical subjects now think and speak of themselves as witnesses; and that the rhetoric of witnessing can be mundane, formulaic, or popular instead of rare and refined. This study builds upon previous literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and theological studies of its subject matter in order to analyze witnessing, instead, as a commonplace form of communication and as a prevalent mode of influence regarding the putative realities and lessons of historical injustice or tragedy. It thus weighs both the uses and disadvantages of witnessing as an ordinary feature of modern public life.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Invention: Booker T. Washington’s Cotton States
Chapter 2: Authenticity: Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments
Chapter 3: Regret: George W. Bush’s Gorée Island Address
Chapter 4: Habituation: The National September 11 Memorial
Chapter 5: Impossibility

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