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Figurative inquisitions : conversion, torture, and truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic / Erin Graff Zivin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graff Zivin, Erin, author.
- Series:
- FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
- FlashPoints
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American literature--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Portuguese literature--History and criticism.
- Portuguese literature.
- Torture in literature.
- Inquisition in literature.
- Torture in motion pictures.
- Inquisition in motion pictures.
- Torture--Social aspects.
- Torture.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 167 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe. Yet discussion of torture has remained restricted to three principal fields: the legal, the pragmatic, and the moral, eclipsing the less immediate but vital question of what torture does. Figurative Inquisitions seeks to correct this lacuna by approaching the question of torture from a literary vantage point. This book investigates the uncanny presence of the Inquisition and marranismo (crypto-Judaism) in modern literature, theater, and film from Mexico, Brazil, and Portugal. Through a critique of fictional scenes of interrogation, it underscores the vital role of the literary in deconstructing the relation between torture and truth. Figurative Inquisitions traces the contours of a relationship between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in an account of the "Inquisitional logic" that continues to haunt contemporary political forms. In so doing, the book offers a unique humanistic perspective on current torture debates. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Preface: inquisitional logic
- Introduction: conversion, torture, and truth
- Aporias of marranismo
- Allegory and hauntology
- Interrogative signs
- Other inquisitions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810129450
- 0810129450
- OCLC:
- 843858242
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