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

Title
Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text / Ileana Rodríguez.
Author
Rodríguez, Ileana.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
ix, 235 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Illuminations
Uniform Title
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Cross-Cultural Dialogues in a Global World -- Ch. 1. Cultures, Nations, Differences: The Paradoxical Fantasies of Liberalism as Democracy -- Ch. 2. Western Texts, Indigenous Histories, Feminist Readings: The Struggle for Civil Rights within the Context of Liberalism -- Ch. 3. Indigenous Creencias, Millenarian Cultures, and Counterpublic Persuasion -- Ch. 4. The Violent Text: Separating the Social and the Political -- Ch. 5. Constituting Subaltern Subjectivities, Disclosing Acts of Violence -- Ch. 6. Feminicidio, or the Serial Killings of Women: Labor Shifts and Disempowered Subjects at the Border -- Ch. 7. The Perverse Heterosexual -- Epilogue: Essentially Contested Concepts and Innocent Spaces.
ISBN
  • 9780822943686 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822943689 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822960195 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822960192 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008052969
  • 40016679625
OCLC
  • ocn289009059
  • SCSB-5469858
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries