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The Letter of Violence : Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics
by I. Avelar
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781403967428
- ISBN-10: 1403967423
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: January 2005
- Dimensions: 8.24 x 6.06 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
- Page Count: 194
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