The letter of violence [[electronic resource] ] : essays on narrative, ethics, and politics / / Idelber Avelar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784125403321
• Autore: Avelar Idelber <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
• ISBN: 1-281-36367-7; 9786611363673; 1-4039-7820-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: x, 194 p
• Collana: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Disciplina: 303.6
• Soggetti: Violence; Violence - Philosophy; Torture; Violence in literature; Latin American literature - History and criticism; Ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.