The Letter of Violence
Subtitle: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (New Directions in Latino American Culture)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781403967428
Subjects: Sociology; Violence in literature; Philosophy; Latin American literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Textbooks; Violence; Torture; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin America - General; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Essays
Description: This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.