Bruce Robbins

Atrocity

A Literary History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With penetrating insight, Robbins takes up literary representations of atrocity as Bartolomà de las Casas's account of his fellow Spaniards' atrocities, Slaughterhouse-Five, Simplicissimus, Cloud Atlas, and more. Robbins pursues the proposition, that, in the midst of relentlessly repetitive slaughter, humanity's moral history might include a cosmopolitan arc.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781503640559
• ISBN-10: 1503640558
• Artikelnr.: 70026269

Autorenporträt

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has authored several books, among them Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction (Stanford, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Violence Was Like the Weather
2. Plunder: Historicizing Atrocity
3. Self-Scrutiny in the Era of High Imperialism
4. Contextualizing and Decontextualizing in the Twentieth Century
5. Confusions of Self-Indictment
6. Strategy from Below
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index