Rhetorical Pain - Collective, Healing, and Hope

This book provides close-textual analysis of traditional and mediated, popular memorials that tackle some of the most significant sources of pain in United States. In doing so, Tiara K. Good argues that pain is highly rhetorical and functions to form collectives and instigate change.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Demanding a Witness: Candyman and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Chapter 2: "Together, We Are Turning Tragedy into Transformation:" Ending Gun Violence in America
Chapter 3: Demanding Empathy for Change: Family Members' Love Transforming Others

About the author

By Tiara Good

Product details

• Authors: Tiara Good, Tiara Good
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2024
• EAN: 9781666942507
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-250-7
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics