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Liberalism at its limits crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text

Title
Liberalism at its limits [electronic resource] : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text / Ileana Rodríguez.
Author
Rodríguez, Ileana.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 235 p.)
Series Statement
Illuminations--cultural formations of the Americas
Uniform Title
Liberalism at its limits (Online)
Alternative Title
Liberalism at its limits (Online)
Subject
  • Liberalism > Latin America
  • Violence > Latin America
  • Civil society > Latin America
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.
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Contents
Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy -- Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism -- Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion -- The violent text: separating the social and the political -- Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence -- Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border -- The perverse heterosexual.
LCCN
2008052969
OCLC
ssj0000607386
Author
Rodríguez, Ileana.
Title
Liberalism at its limits [electronic resource] : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text / Ileana Rodríguez.
Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.
Series
Illuminations--cultural formations of the Americas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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