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"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 ...Show synopsis"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 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse ("The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy") and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.Hide synopsis
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Title: A Lexicon of Terror (Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated With a New Epilogue): 1 Volumes Author:Marguerite Feitlowitz ISBN-13:9780199744695 ISBN:0199744696
Description:BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 235x156 mm. (416) a new york times notable...BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 235x156 mm. (416) a new york times notable book of the year and finalist for the l.l. winsh1p / pen new england award in 1998, a lexicon of terror is a sensitive and unflinching account of the sadism, paranoia, and deception the military junta unleashed on the argentine people from 1976 to 1983. this updated edition features a new epilogue that chronicles major political, legal, and social developments in argentina since the book's initial publication. a lexicon of terror vividly evokes this shocking era and tells of the long-lasting effects it has left on the argentine culture. (Paperback)
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