Liberalism at its limits
Subtitle: crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text
By: Ileana Rodríguez.
Series: Illuminations--cultural formations of the Americas
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780822943686; 9780822960195
Subjects: Liberalism -- Latin America; Violence -- Latin America; Civil society -- Latin America
Notes: Includes and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy; title: Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism; title: Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion; title: The violent text: separating the social and the political; title: Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence; title: Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border; title: The perverse heterosexual.