Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Volume 13

(Part of the FlashPoints Series)

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Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jewish Studies

The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe. Yet discussion of torture has remained restricted to three principal fields: the legal, the pragmatic, and the moral, eclipsing the less immediate but vital question of what torture does.Figurative Inquisitions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810129450

ISBN13:9780810129450

Release Date:January 2014

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:174 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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