Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text / Ileana Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, Ileana, author.

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations : Cultural Formations of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Latin America.

Liberalism.

Violence--Latin America.

Violence.

Civil society--Latin America.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Looks to the criminality and violence of Latin America to assess the discord between liberalism in theory and practice, and thus how liberalism might be exhausted in relation to local conditions not reconcilable to its core tenants.

Contents:

Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy

Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism

Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion

The violent text: separating the social and the political

Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence

Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border

The perverse heterosexual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781322068473

132206847X

9780822973539

0822973537

OCLC:

891385646