Violence without guilt: ethical narratives from the global south

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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60817-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés