Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America / Sophie Esch. [electronic resource]
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TextSeries: Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type: - 9780822986133 (e-book)
- Firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America
- 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
- 355.009728 23
- F1438 .E834 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.