Introduction -- The transatlantic circulation of terror: reflections of the paradoxes of political disapearence -- The politics of melancholia: hardboiled fiction as a parable of the state of exception -- Gazing at the real: trauma and repetition in contemporary documentaries from Spain and the Southern Cone -- Towards a model of global justice?: el caso Pinochet and the limits of human rights and international justice
Summary
Radical Justice investigates the convoluted relationship between memory and justice as it is portrayed in political documentaries and detective fiction from Spain and the Southern Cone. It argues that the possibility of achieving justice in these regions lies beyond market and state and is yet to come. Rather than focusing on "high literature" Radical Justice uses popular culture as a site from which to question both the inability of the State and the transnational market to come to terms with the dictatorial past and to deliver justice. This book will interest a wide range of scholars, from n
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Extracts from Spanish sources with English translation
