PART I: A MODERN WAR ON AFFECT From Walter Benjamin's Early Writings to the Perils of Global Modernity PART II: THE NARCOCORRIDO: A PHENOMENOLIGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK INTO TRANSNATIONAL STORYTELLING When Narcocorridos were born Parataxes unbound Where Affection meets Figuration: Corrido Language and the Intermedial Presence of Death PART III: COLOMBIAN MARGINALITIES AND THE CULTURE OF EXCEPTION Young, Alien and Totally Violence: Marginal 'Kings of the World' Autobiography as Eschatological Project: An Intellectual Struggle Regarding Freedom and Guilt PART IV: AFFECTIVE POLITICS AND THE IMAGE Beyong Bare Life: Affection Images of Violence in Latin American Film

This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.

HERMANN HERLINGHAUS is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.