A WORLD TORN APART by Victoria Carpenter (Editor) ( 9783039113354 )

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Title:

A WORLD TORN APART
REPRESENTATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE

By:

Victoria Carpenter (Editor)

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PETER LANG AG

Pub. date:

1 December, 2007

Series:

Cultural Identity Studies 9

Pages:

304

Synopsis:

This collection of essays derives from a conference on Violence, Culture and Identity held in St Andrews in June 2003. It is a contribution to the understanding of representations of violence in Latin American narrative. The collected essays are dedicated to the study of the problematic history of violence as a means of 'civilizing' the region: violence used by dictatorial regimes to eradicate the collective memory of their actions; violence as a result of the history of marginalizing segments of the population; sexual violence as an attempt at complete control of the victim. The essays establish a clear link between historical, political and literary constructs spanning the past five hundred years of Latin American history. Close readings of political texts, historical documents, prose, poetry and films employ identity theories, postcolonial discourse, and the principles of mimetic and sacrificial violence. The volume adds to the ongoing critical investigation of the relationship between Latin American history and narrative, and to the key role of representations of violence within that narrative tradition.

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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG

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