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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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  • Title Cruel Modernity
  • Author Jean Franco
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Publication date 2013-05-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780822354567 / 082235456X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Category Gender Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Latin America - Politics and government -, Latin America - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013003141
  • Dewey Decimal Code 980.03

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Jean Franco (1924-2022) was Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was the winner of the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by both the Chilean and Venezuelan governments with the Gabriela Mistral Medal and the Andres Bello Medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her previous books include Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, Csar Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence, and A Literary History of Spain and Spanish.

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