Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America
Title:
Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America
Author:
Esch, Sophie, author.
ISBN:
9780822986133
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages).
Series:
Illuminations: Cultural formations of the Americas series
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Contents:
Introduction: Firearms as symbols of insurgency and modernity -- Carbines and cartridge belts : affirming one's presence -- Pistols and paredón : violent politics of affect and modernity -- Riddled by bullets : weaponry, militancy, and the people in arms as desire and enigma -- Songs of guerrilla warfare and enchatment : popularizing and legitimizing armed struggle -- Hidden arsenals : demobilized combatants and the postwar state of mind -- Golden AK-47s and weapon displays : the props of the drug war -- Epilogue: The long shadow of the rifle.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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