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.
Autorentext
HERMANN HERLINGHAUS is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Inhalt
PART I: A MODERN WAR ON AFFECT From Walter Benjamin's Early Writings to the Perils of Global Modernity PART II: THE NARCOCORRIDO: A PHENOMENOLIGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK INTO TRANSNATIONAL STORYTELLING When Narcocorridos were born Parataxes unbound Where Affection meets Figuration: Corrido Language and the Intermedial Presence of Death PART III: COLOMBIAN MARGINALITIES AND THE CULTURE OF EXCEPTION Young, Alien and Totally Violence: Marginal 'Kings of the World' Autobiography as Eschatological Project: An Intellectual Struggle Regarding Freedom and Guilt PART IV: AFFECTIVE POLITICS AND THE IMAGE Beyong Bare Life: Affection Images of Violence in Latin American Film
Titel
Violence without Guilt
Untertitel
Ethical Narratives from the Global South
Autor
EAN
9780230617933
ISBN
978-0-230-61793-3
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
24.05.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
73.79 MB
Anzahl Seiten
258
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch
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