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Cruel modernity / Jean Franco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franco, Jean, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State-sponsored terrorism--Latin America--History--20th century.
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- State-sponsored terrorism--Latin America--History--21st century.
- Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzing the conditions under which dehumanizing cruelty came to be used by states and rogue groups in Latin America, Jean Franco argues that acts of extreme cruelty and the ways they are rationalized are defining features of modernity.
- Contents:
- The "insignificant incident" and its aftermath
- Alien to modernity
- Raping the dead
- Killers, torturers, sadists, and collaborators
- Revolutionary justice
- Cruel survival
- Tortured souls
- The ghostly arts
- Apocalypse now
- Afterword. hypocrite modernity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354567
- 082235456X
- 9780822378907
- 0822378906
- OCLC:
- 1139376708
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