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The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics

By Idelber Avelar

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403967423, 9781403967428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3470178 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
208\205
Time added
2013-12-22 18:38:29

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.

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