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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827362403321

Autore

Martín-Cabrera Luis <1972->

Titolo

Radical justice : Spain and the Southern Cone beyond market and state / / Luis Martín-Cabrera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011

ISBN

1-283-25551-0

9786613255518

1-61148-357-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

863/.087209064

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories, Spanish - History and criticism

Detective and mystery stories, Spanish American - History and criticism

Political persecution in literature

Disappeared persons in literature

Justice in literature

Human rights in literature

Human rights in motion pictures

Human rights - Spain

Human rights - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This work investigates the convoluted relationship between memory and justice in Spain and the Southern Cone as it is portrayed in political documentaries and detective fiction from Spain and the Southern Cone.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The transatlantic circulation of terror: reflections of the paradoxes of political dissapearence -- The politics of melancholia: hardboiled fiction as a parable of the state of exception -- Gazing at the real: trauma and repetition in contemporary documentaries from Spain and the Southern Cone -- Towards a model of global justice? el caso Pinochet and the limits of human rights and international justice.

Sommario/riassunto

Radical Justice investigates the convoluted relationship between memory and justice in Spain and the Southern Cone as it is portrayed in political documentaries and detective fiction from Spain and the Southern Cone. It argues that the possibility of achieving justice in



these regions lies beyond market and State and is yet to come. This book appeals to a wide range of scholars, ranging from national literature and film specialists of Argentina, Chile, and Spain, to philosophers and students of ethics, human rights, and questions of j