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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):
- Torture--Social aspects.
- Torture.
- Inquisition in motion pictures.
- Torture in motion pictures.
- Inquisition in literature.
- Torture in literature.
- Portuguese literature--History and criticism.
- Portuguese literature.
- Latin American literature--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jewish Studies The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe.
- Contents:
- Preface: inquisitional logic
- Introduction: conversion, torture, and truth
- Aporias of marranismo
- Allegory and hauntology
- Interrogative signs
- Other inquisitions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6743-3
- OCLC:
- 879284656
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