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Cruel modernity /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.