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Cruel Modernity (Paperback)
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In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which
extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments,
rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand
how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the
continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from
the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally
the atrocity against which the horror of others is measured. In
Latin America, torturers and the perpetrators of atrocity were not
only trained in cruelty but often provided their own rationales for
engaging in it. When "draining the sea" to eliminate the support
for rebel groups gave license to eliminate entire families, the
rape, torture, and slaughter of women dramatized festering misogyny
and long-standing racial discrimination accounted for high death
tolls in Peru and Guatemala. In the drug wars, cruelty has become
routine as tortured bodies serve as messages directed to rival
gangs.Franco draws on human-rights documents, memoirs,
testimonials, novels, and films, as well as photographs and art
works, to explore not only cruel acts but the discriminatory
thinking that made them possible, their long-term effects, the
precariousness of memory, and the pathos of survival.
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