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Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative by Anbal Gonzlez 029271808X 9780292718081
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Writing and violence have been inextricably linked in Spanish America from the Conquest onward. Spanish authorities used written edicts, laws, permits, regulations, logbooks, and account books to control indigenous peoples whose cultures were predominantly oral, giving rise to a mingled awe and mistrust of the power of the written word that persists in Spanish American culture to the present day. In this masterful study, Anbal Gonzlez traces and describes how Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writings relation to violence and about their own relation to writing. Using an approach that owes much to the recent turn to ethics in deconstruction and to the works of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, he examines selected short stories and novels by major Spanish American authors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries: Manuel Gutirrez Njera, Manuel Zeno Ganda, Teresa de la Parra, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, and Julio Cortzar. He shows how these authors frequently display an attitude he calls graphophobia, an intense awareness of the potential dangers of the written word.

Author: Anbal Gonzlez

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 188

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Publication Date: 2009-06-15


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