{"product_id":"killer-books-writing-violence-and-ethics-in-modern-spanish-american-narrative-paperback-softback-9780292718081","title":"Killer Books; Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292718081","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKiller Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAníbal González (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292718081\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In this masterful study, AnÍbal GonzÁlez traces and describes how Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writing's 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 GutiÉrrez NÁjera, Manuel Zeno GandÍa, Teresa de la Parra, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez, and Julio CortÁzar. He shows how these authors frequently display an attitude he calls \"graphophobia,\" an intense awareness of the potential dangers of the written word. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Killer Books: Writers, Writing, and Ethics in Spanish America \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Abuses \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Writing and Child Abuse in Manuel GutiÉ\u003cbr\u003errez NÁ\u003cbr\u003ejera's \"\u003cbr\u003eLa hija del aire\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Silvina's Fall: Manuel Zeno GandÍ\u003cbr\u003ea's Epicurean Ethics of Writing in \u003ci\u003eLa charca\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. \u003ci\u003eIfigenia's\u003c\/i\u003e Choice: Teresa de la Parra's Demonic Option \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Admonitions \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. From Fission to Fiction: Ethical Chain Reactions in Jorge Luis Borges's \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden of Forking Paths\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Ethics and Theatricality in Alejo Carpentier's \u003ci\u003eThe Harp and the Shadow \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. Shared Guilt: Writing as Crime in Julio CortÁ\u003cbr\u003ezar's \"\u003cbr\u003ePress Clippings\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530854232344,"sku":"9780292718081","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/killer-books-writing-violence-and-ethics-in-modern-spanish-american-narrative-paperback-softback-9780292718081","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}