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Binding Violence : Literary Visions of Political Origins /

Binding Violence exposes the relation between literary imagination, autonomous politics, and violence through the close analysis of literary texts-in particular Sophocles' Antigone, D. A. F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat-that speak to a blind sp...

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Autor principal: Fradinger, Moira (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Literature, Violence, and Politics
  • Antigone and the Polis
  • The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
  • Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
  • Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
  • Modern Tempo- Democratic Overture, State Finale
  • Sade's Text and Sade's Times
  • The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
  • Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering "Nonpeople," Membering "The People"
  • Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
  • Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
  • Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
  • Vargas Llosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
  • Necropolitics I: From an "African Horde" to a Modern Country
  • Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
  • The Force of Imagination
  • Notes
  • Index