{"id":3249,"date":"2013-09-01T13:10:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:18:25","slug":"noted-scholar-jean-franco-to-talk-about-her-new-book-cruel-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/noted-scholar-jean-franco-to-talk-about-her-new-book-cruel-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted scholar Jean Franco to Talk about Her New Book, \u201cCruel Modernity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cruel_Modernity.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3251\" alt=\"Cruel_Modernity\" src=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cruel_Modernity.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Knight Library<br \/>\nBrowsing Room<br \/>\n1501 Kincaid St.<\/p>\n<p>The Latin American Studies Program presents:<\/p>\n<p>A panel discussion of Jean Franco\u2019s newest book,\u00a0<em>Cruel Modernity<\/em>\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussants<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Pedro Garcia-Caro (Department of Romance Languages)<\/li>\n<li>Tamara Lea Spira (Department of Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Jean Franco (Columbia University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>A BOOK SIGNING AND RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE PANEL DISCUSSION<\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong><!--more-->JEAN FRANC<\/strong>O is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a former president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). She has received numerous awards, including the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English. She is the author of numerous books, including <em>The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War<\/em>\u00a0(Harvard UP, 2002) and C<em>ritical Passions\u00a0<\/em>(Duke UP, 1999).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In \u00a0<em>Cruel Modernity<\/em>, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. Torturers and the perpetrators of atrocity were not only trained in cruelty but often provided their own rationales for engaging in it. 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