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Author Esch, Sophie, author.

Title Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America / Sophie Esch.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
2018

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages).
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Series Illuminations: Cultural formations of the Americas series
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Firearms as symbols of insurgency and modernity -- Carbines and cartridge belts : affirming one's presence -- Pistols and paredon : 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Firearms in literature -- Case studies.
Firearms -- Social aspects -- Central America.
Firearms -- Social aspects -- Mexico.
Insurgency -- Social aspects.
War in literature.
Militarism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
Central America -- History, Military -- Social aspects.
Mexico -- History, Military -- Social aspects.
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Influence.
Nicaragua -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Influence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America
Other Form: Print version: Esch, Sophie. Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2018 284 pages Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 9780822965381 (DLC) 2018048795
ISBN 9780822965381
9780822986133 (e-book)

 
    
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