02581nam 2200721Ia 450 991045106350332120200520144314.01-281-36367-797866113636731-4039-7820-410.1007/978-1-4039-7820-2(CKB)1000000000342796(SSID)ssj0000518858(PQKBManifestationID)12161744(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518858(PQKBWorkID)10494277(PQKB)11703852(MiAaPQ)EBC308252(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7820-2(Au-PeEL)EBL308252(CaPaEBR)ebr10135487(CaONFJC)MIL136367(OCoLC)437187416(EXLCZ)99100000000034279620040426d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe letter of violence[electronic resource] essays on narrative, ethics, and politics /Idelber Avelar1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan2004x, 194 pNew Directions in Latino American CulturesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4039-6742-3 1-4039-6741-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.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.New Directions in Latino American CulturesViolenceViolencePhilosophyTortureViolence in literatureLatin American literatureHistory and criticismEthicsElectronic books.Violence.ViolencePhilosophy.Torture.Violence in literature.Latin American literatureHistory and criticism.Ethics.303.6Avelar Idelber1968-867344MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451063503321The letter of violence1936037UNINA