The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics - Hardback

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.

• | Author: I. Avelar
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 194 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1403967415
• | ISBN-13: 9781403967411