LEADER 03175nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910812394503321 005 20240516013017.0 010 $a1-281-36367-7 010 $a9786611363673 010 $a1-4039-7820-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4039-7820-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342796 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000518858 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12161744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518858 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10494277 035 $a(PQKB)11703852 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7820-2 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308252 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135487 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136367 035 $a(OCoLC)437187416 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308252 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342796 100 $a20040426d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe letter of violence $eessays on narrative, ethics, and politics /$fIdelber Avelar 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2004 215 $ax, 194 p 225 1 $aNew Directions in Latino American Cultures 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4039-6742-3 311 $a1-4039-6741-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aThis book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia. 410 0$aNew Directions in Latino American Cultures 606 $aViolence 606 $aViolence$xPhilosophy 606 $aTorture 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics 615 0$aViolence. 615 0$aViolence$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aTorture. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a303.6 700 $aAvelar$b Idelber$f1968-$01678503 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812394503321 996 $aThe letter of violence$94046216 997 $aUNINA