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A Rupture in the Courtroom: Collective Rhetoric, Survivor Speech, and the Subversive Limits of the Victim Impact Statement
Women's Studies in Communication Pub Date : 2021-02-01 , DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2020.1839991
Katie L. Gibson 1
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Abstract

In 2018, 156 survivors took over a small courtroom in Lansing, Michigan, to deliver victim impact statements at the sentencing hearing of Larry Nassar. This article argues that the survivors collectivized their voices and mobilized the subversive potential of the victim impact statement (VIS) to disrupt courtroom norms, hegemonic scripts, and generic expectations that contain and diminish testimony of sexual violence. This article also argues that white supremacy animated this moment of rhetorical rupture and demonstrates how racist logics of worthy victimhood infect the rhetorical potential of the VIS genre and restrict opportunity for disruption within its form. This case study explicates the counterhegemonic promise of survivor speech, the subversive limits of generic rupture, and the role that race, power, and privilege play in the mobilization of collective rhetoric.



中文翻译:

法庭破裂:集体修辞、幸存者演讲和受害者影响陈述的颠覆性限制

摘要

2018 年,156 名幸存者接管了密歇根州兰辛的一个小型法庭,在拉里·纳萨尔的量刑听证会上发表受害者影响陈述。本文认为,幸存者集体化了他们的声音,并调动了受害者影响陈述 (VIS) 的颠覆性潜力,以破坏法庭规范、霸权脚本和包含和削弱性暴力证词的普遍期望。本文还认为,白人至上主义激发了这一修辞破裂的时刻,并展示了有价值的受害者的种族主义逻辑如何影响 VIS 类型的修辞潜力并限制其形式中的破坏机会。这个案例研究解释了幸存者言论的反霸权承诺、一般性破裂的颠覆性限制,以及种族、权力、

更新日期:2021-02-01
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