Violence without guilt : ethical narratives from the global South / Hermann Herlinghaus.
This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- From Walter Benjamin's early writings to the perils of global modernity
- When narcocorridos were born
- Parataxes unbound
- Where affection meets figuration: Corrido language and the intermedial presence of death
- Young, alien, and totally violent: marginal 'kings of the world'
- Autobiography as eschatological project: an intellectual struggle regarding freedom and guilt
- Beyond bare life: affection-images of violence in Latin American film.