1st Edition
Human Rights Rhetoric Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing
Chapter 1. Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing Arabella Lyon University at Buffalo & Lester C. Olson University of Pittsburgh
Chapter 2. Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers Jacqueline Jones Royster & Molly Cochran Georgia Tech
Chapter 3. ‘‘From the Eye to the Soul’’: Industrial Labor’s Mary Harris ‘‘Mother’’ Jones and the Rhetorics of Display Mari Boor Tonn University of Richmond
Chapter 4. Rights Language and HIV Treatment: Universal Care or Population Control? Cindy Patton Simon Fraser University
Chapter 5. A Question of Confession’s Discovery Erik Doxtader University of South Carolina
Chapter 6. Human Rights Rhetoric of Recognition Wendy S. Hesford Ohio State University
Chapter 7. Human Rights Rhetoric: A Visual Sequence Lester C. Olson University of Pittsburgh & Arabella Lyon University at Buffalo
Biography
Arabella Lyon has published recent essays on comparative rhetoric, human rights, and Chinese communication. Her book Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored won the Ross Winterowd Award for the Outstanding Book in Rhetoric and Composition. Currently she is completing a manuscript entitled Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rights, and Rhetoric.
Lester C. Olson’s books include Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era (1991), Benjamin Franklin’s Vision of American Community (2004), and, with co-editors Cara A. Finnegan and Diane S. Hope, Visual Rhetoric (2007). His essays concerning Audre Lorde’s advocacy appear in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy & Rhetoric, American Voices, Queering Public Address, and The Responsibilities of Rhetoric.
