Cruel Modernity /
"Cruel Modernity is a tour de force by Jean Franco, the major figure in Latin American cultural criticism. Franco has an unfailing sense of the political and in Cruel Modernity she reveals a kind of madness in the nation-building business. The widespread perpetration of cruelty and gratuitous v...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.