{"product_id":"a-lexicon-of-terror-argentina-and-the-legacies-of-torture-9780195106350","title":"A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 Argentinas 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 its 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651497844789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195106350","price":39.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195106350.jpg?v=1781835205","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-lexicon-of-terror-argentina-and-the-legacies-of-torture-9780195106350","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}