New Directions in Latino American Cultures: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics

Avelar, I.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-01-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403967411

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4039-7820-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 194