A Lexicon of Terror by Marguerite Feitlowitz

A Lexicon of Terror by Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Exposing the nightmare of sadism, paranoia and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, claiming over 30,000 civilians, this text explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse and to domesticate torture and murder.

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A Lexicon of Terror by Marguerite Feitlowitz

Exposing the nightmare of sadism, paranoia and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, claiming over 30,000 civilians, this text explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse and to domesticate torture and murder.
Feitlowitz, Marguerite: - Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of the internationally acclaimed A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. She has translated the works of, among others, Griselda Gambaro, Carlos Monsivü¾Œ–”¼is, Liliane Atlan, and Angü¾Ž–”¼lica Gorodischer. She teaches literature at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.
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ISBN 13 9780195106350
ISBN 10 0195106350
Title A Lexicon of Terror
Author Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1998-04-16
Number of pages 320
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