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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franco, Jean, 1924-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lateinamerika
Politiskt våld.
Statsterrorism.
State-sponsored terrorism > Latin America > History > 21st century.
State-sponsored terrorism > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Grausamkeit
Gewalt
Politik
State-sponsored terrorism.
Politics and government
Terrorisme d'État > Amerique latine > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Terrorisme d'État > Amerique latine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Latin America > Politics and government > 21st century.
Latin America > Politics and government > 20th century.
Latin America.
Amerique latine > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siecle.
Amerique latine > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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