The Letter of Violence : Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics / by I. Avelar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avelar, Idelber, 1968-

Series:

New Directions in Latino American Cultures, 2634-520X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Literature.

America--History.

America.

Latin American Culture.

History of the Americas.

Local Subjects:

Latin American Culture.

Literature.

History of the Americas.

Physical Description:

x, 194 p.

Edition:

1st ed. 2004.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

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B

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D

E

F

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H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

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Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.

ISBN:

9786611363673

9781281363671

1281363677

9781403978202

1403978204

OCLC:

437187416