The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture

by Jennifer R. Ballengee

The Wound and the Witness offers a historically grounded approach to an urgent contemporary problem: the persistence of torture in Western culture. Drawing upon ancient Greek and Roman texts, as well as contemporary media events, Jennifer R. Ballengee explores the spectacle of torture as a persuasive device. She suggests that both torture and the witnessing of torture are forms of polemical writing, carried out on the body. The analysis combines close...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438424914
• ISBN13: 9781438424910
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"