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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046669603321

Autore

Graff Zivin Erin

Titolo

Figurative Inquisitions : Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic / / Erin Graff Zivin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-8101-6743-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages)

Collana

FlashPoints

Disciplina

860.9358

Soggetti

Torture - Social aspects

Inquisition in motion pictures

Torture in motion pictures

Inquisition in literature

Torture in literature

Portuguese literature - History and criticism

Latin American literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: inquisitional logic -- Introduction: conversion, torture, and truth -- Aporias of marranismo -- Allegory and hauntology -- Interrogative signs -- Other inquisitions.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jewish Studies The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe.