Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative.(Book Review)

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Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative. By ANIBAL GONZALEZ. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2001. xi+176 pp. $40. ISBN 0-292-72839-5.

Killer Books explores modern Spanish American reflections on writing and violence. Following Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Anibal Gonzalez argues that writing involves a compromised relation to the Other when the Other is imagined simultaneously as other human beings and the written text itself. Marking modernismo as the first Spanish American literary movement that cannot ignore that compromised ...

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