Violence without Guilt Ethical Narratives

Can modernity be imagined as a "war on affect" propelled by the unequal distribution of guilt and fear as major forces of containment? Exploring Walter Benjamin's early texts on violence and religion and bringing them to bear upon contemporary struggles, Herlinghaus argues that the flexible production of affective marginalities lies at the heart of the psycho-cultural dynamics of globalization. Analyzing new imaginaries in Latin American literature, music and film,Violence Without Guiltexamines how ethical experience is being drastically reshaped in the realms where violence is an existential reality, especially in the lives and fantasies of those who find themselves today unprotected by Western perceptions of lawfulness and citizenship.

Hermann Herlinghaus is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of “Renarración y descentramiento: Mapas alternativos de la imaginación en América Latina” (2004); “Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: Melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina” (2002); “Populär – volkstümlich – Popularkultur” (2002); “Modernidad heterogénea” (2000) and “Alejo Carpentier” (1991).

Acknowledgments	p. vii
A Note on Translations	p. ix
A Modern War on Affect
From Walter Benjamin's Early Writings to the Perils of Global Modernity	p. 3
Reapproaching Benjamin, Locating Emerging Narratives	p. 3
A War on Intoxication: Affective Marginalities and the Examination of Experience	p. 8
"Capitalism as Religion": Guilt and the Success Story of Containment	p. 19
The Narcocorrido: A Phenomenological and Philosophical Look into Transnational Storytelling
When Narcocorridos Were Born	p. 31
A Paradox of Global Archaism	p. 31
Los Tigres del Norte and the Suspension of Melodrama	p. 37
Jesus Malverde: On the Hidden Core of Enacted Narration	p. 48
Parataxes Unbound	p. 57
Troposcapes of Imagination and the Figural Engagement of Border Crossing	p. 57
Erich Auerbach's Conflict with the Archaic Other	p. 67
Paratactical Drama and the Effacement of Tragedy: Casualties of Globalization	p. 74
Where Affection Meets Figuration: Corrido Language and the Intermedial Presence of Death	p. 81
Monstrous Speech: The Reemergence of Anamorphotic Tropes	p. 81
An Intermedial Approach to Affectivity	p. 85
A Non-Heideggerian Prolepsis: Affection beyond the Ontological Sublime	p. 92
Postscriptum: An Ethical Paradox Regarding Violence	p. 97
Colombian Marginalities and the Culture of Exception
Young, Alien, and Totally Violent: Marginal "Kings of the World"	p. 105
Approaching the Culture of Exception: The Testimonial Project of Alonso Salazar	p. 105
Sacred Labor: Death and the Gendered Space of Survival	p. 113
Collapsing Consumption: Religiosity and Ethics beyond Guilt	p. 121
Postscriptum	p. 133
Autobiography as Eschatological Project: An Intellectual Struggle Regarding Freedom and Guilt	p. 135
Approaching Ritualistic Masculinity: Our Lady of the Assassins (Fernando Vallejo)	p. 135
"Vir Clarisimus-Unum et Idem-Summum Jus": The Reinvention of the Master and the Battle of Language	p. 142
Angels of Terror versus Marginal Subjects	p. 151
Inverted Christianism: A Sacrificial Romance	p. 156
Affective Politics and the Image
Beyond Bare Life: Affection-Images of Violence in Latin American Film	p. 169
Questioning the "Dogma" of Bare Life	p. 169
After Tragedy, If Not Melodrama, What?	p. 172
Resurgence of the Forgotten: Victor Gaviria's Project of Immanent Critique	p. 188
Coda	p. 202
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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