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Exemplary Violence : Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia /

"In Discourse on Colonialism, Aime Cesaire asserts that colonization ultimately works to decivilize the colonizer, awakening baser, brutalizing, and dehumanizing instincts in him. In Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia, Villate-Isaza explores Colombia's violent colon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Villate-Isaza, Alberto (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A rhetorical balancing act
  • Instructing through negative examples
  • Nudity is the disguise. Political and moral instruction
  • The authority to displace and adapt the past
  • Founding principles
  • The constant threat of beauty and wealth.