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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790000003321

Autore

Feitlowitz Marguerite

Titolo

Lexicon of Terror [[electronic resource] ] : Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

ISBN

0-19-984037-7

0-19-976985-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (720 p.)

Disciplina

982.06

982.06/3

Soggetti

Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1955-1983

Disappeared persons -- Argentina -- History

Political violence -- Argentina -- History

Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Argentina -- History

Terrorism -- Argentina -- History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Gentlemen's Coup""; ""1 A Lexicon of Terror""; ""2 Night and Fog""; ""3 "Life Here Is Normal"""; ""4 The Land Mourneth""; ""5 The House of the Blind""; ""6 "The Scilingo Effect" The Past Is a Predator""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

""We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children."" Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 c