The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
Book Details
Author(s)Idelber Avelar
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN1403967423
ISBN-139781403967428
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Sales Rank1,918,530
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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.

