The Wound and the Witness

The Wound and the WitnessExplores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts. 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

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