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"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 is 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 extensive 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 legally pardoned or never charged, live side by side with those they tortured."--BOOK JACKET.
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Disappeared persons, History, Political aspects, Political aspects of Rhetoric, Political violence, Politics and government, Rhetoric, Terrorism, Argentina, politics and government, Torture, Argentina, history, New York Times reviewed, Rhetoric--political aspects--history, Rhetoric--political aspects--argentina--history, Political violence--history, Political violence--argentina--history, Disappeared persons--history, Disappeared persons--argentina--history, Terrorism--history, Terrorism--argentina--history, F2849.2 .f37 1998, 982.06Places
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Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue
2011, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
2011, Oxford University Press
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford World's Classics)
August 5, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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A lexicon of terror: Argentina and the legacies of torture
1998, Oxford University Press
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"AUGUST 1990, LATE WINTER in the southern hemisphere."
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