The Letter of Violence : Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics.
Title:
The Letter of Violence : Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics.
Author:
Avelar, Idelber.
ISBN:
9781403978202
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Series:
New Concepts in Latino American Cultures
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession, and the History of Truth -- Chapter 2 Thinking Ethics across Neocolonial Borders: Borges, Ethical Theory, and the International Division of Intellectual Labor -- Chapter 3 Specters of Walter Benjamin: Mourning, Labor, and Violence in Jacques Derrida -- Chapter 4 Transculturation and Civil War: The Origins of the Novel in Colombia -- Afterword: Violence, Law, and Justice -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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