Title: The Letter of Violence
First published: December 23, 2004
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.
Subjects: Philosophy, Torture, Violence in literature, Latin American literature, Ethics, Violence, History and criticism, Latin american literature, history and criticism