Violence without Guilt

Part I. A Modern War on Affect

1. From Walter Benjamin’s Early Writings to the Perils of Global Modernity
Hermann Herlinghaus

Part II. The Narcocorrido: A Phenomenological and Philosophical Look into Transnational Storytelling

2. When Narcocorridos Were Born
Hermann Herlinghaus

3. Parataxes Unbound
Hermann Herlinghaus

4. Where Affection Meets Figuration: Corrido Language and the Intermedial Presence of Death
Hermann Herlinghaus

Part III. Colombian Marginalities and the Culture of Exception

5. Young, Alien, and Totally Violent: Marginal “Kings of the World”
Hermann Herlinghaus

6. Autobiography as Eschatological Project: An Intellectual Struggle Regarding Freedom and Guilt
Hermann Herlinghaus

Part IV. Affective Politics and the Image

7. Beyond Bare Life: Affection-Images of Violence in Latin American Film
Hermann Herlinghaus

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Postcolonial/World Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, North American Literature, Peace Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature