A Lexicon of Terror
Book description
Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "disappeared"--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1998, A Lexicon of Terror is a sensitive and unflinching account of…
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1 author picked A Lexicon of Terror as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was the first book I read when researching Argentina’s military dictatorship over twenty years ago. It was gifted to me by the head of the graduate program in international affairs at The New School. It explores the use of language in the context of the human rights atrocities that occurred during this dark period of Argentina’s history.
Marguerite Feitlowitz's marrying of investigative narrative with human storytelling makes the work accessible and richly informative.
From Rebecca's list on Argentina’s grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
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