Critical passions: selected essays
by Pratt, Mary Louise, Franco, Jean, Newman, Kathleen E.
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Critical passions: selected essays
by Pratt, Mary Louise, Franco, Jean
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Jean Franco's work played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in the English and Spanish speaking worlds. Containing Franco's essays, this book is organised into four sections: feminism and the critique of authoritarianism, mass and popular culture, Latin American lite…
A work by a Peruvian cultural and literary critic, this book is an elaboration of "heterogeneity," the concept for which the author is best known.
Explores 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
Analyzing the conditions under which dehumanizing cruelty came to be used by states and rogue groups in Latin America, Jean Franco argues that acts of extreme cruelty and the ways they are rationalized are defining features of modernity.
"Jean Franco indicts the orchestrated mass cruelty that has become a hallmark of late modernity. Incubated in modern militaries, kidnapping, torture, rape, and dismemberment became codified skill sets. Cruelty's trained agents disperse into society, staffing gangs, cartels, poli…