Beyond Polaroid: Visual Rhetoric in Shaping Refugee’s Identity
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چکیده
Photographs tend to have an ability influence the collective consciousness of humanity. Sonja K. Foss, a rhetorical educator, opines that language is general while images are concrete and specific. Many time, photographs become spokespersons suffering needy lot. Throughout its history, photography has created opinions, constructed realities people brought human tragedies forefront. The refugee crisis in no way exception. In fact, conscience whole world regard refugees was awakened by appalling photograph three-year-old Syrian toddler, Aylan Kurdi, lying face-down into sand. Such photographs, often symbolic termed as visual rhetoric, slowly turned stereotypes defining crisis. This paper discusses on how these narratives shaped identity various regimes seeing.
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عنوان ژورنال: Smart Moves Journal Ijellh
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2582-3574', '2582-4406']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11061