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.
| ISBN: | 9781403967411 |
| Publication date: | 15th January 2005 |
| Author: | Idelber Avelar |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 194 pages |
| Series: | New Directions in Latino American Cultures |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies History of the Americas Biography, Literature and Literary studies |