Part I. Introduction to violence, artistic/literary portrayal and the "other." The confrontation with the other in Pablo Picasso's Suite Vollard / Enrique Mallén -- The evolution of Hispanic artistic violent imagery through postmodernism : Federico García Lorca, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Bolaño / Elizabeth White Coscio -- Lebanese children against war : the children's speech artifice in Rose Mary Salum's El agua que mece el silencio/The water that rocks the silence / Eduardo Cerdán -- Part II. Introduction to violence and gender/sexual orientation. Incest in medieval/Renaissance Spanish poetry / Debra D. Andrist -- Gender violence : social & personal control techniques through the ages in Hispanic worlds / Debra D. Andrist -- Violence and the victimization of difference in Hispanic American literature / Jorge Chavarro -- Part III. Introduction to violence, ethnicity/race and socio-economic/eco-violence. Brutality, borderlands, and bildungsromans : violence and cultural conflict in Américo Parades' George Washington Gómez and Rodolfo Anaya's Bless me, Última / Lauren P. Derby -- Julio Nombela's La fiebre de riquezas/The fever of riches : a proletarian folletín about Joaquín Murieta, the Californian bandit / María Monserrat (Montse), Feu López -- Violence, trauma, and ecology in John Rollin Ridge's Joaquín Murieta / Jason Payton -- Part IV. Introduction to violence in society and politics. Norms violated : the breakdown of social structures & role expectations in Arturo Uslar Pietri's Las lanzas coloradas/The bloody lances / Debra D. Andrist -- Life on edge : Havana during the last fifty years in Mirta Yáñez's novel, Sangra por la herida/The bleeding wound / Patricia González Gómez-Cásseres -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"The stark reality of all life, from the biology of the food chain incorporating all living beings to the social stratification and hierarchies of human cultures, revolves around violence - physical or psychological. That unavoidable, black-and-white, worldview of survival of the fittest with little if any gray to mitigate it is colored only by the red lifeblood of the victims of the bigger, the stronger, the smarter, the wilier, who literally and/or figuratively "eat" their victims - overcoming, overwhelming, controlling, oppressing them. The premise behind Insult to Injury: Violence in Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino Art and Literature focuses on the representation of the visual and literary artistic products of a group of seemingly alike yet divergent societies, with linguistic and cultural ties that reflect those societies' means of control. These representations socialize viewers and/or readers in personal or public situations, establishing ubiquitous hierarchies. French social anthropologist/literary critic/theorist Rene Girard maintains in Violence & the Sacred that "the oldest means of social control is. violence." While the incorporated violence itself is not the overweening theme of this work, the representation or threat of violence functions in reality in terms that imply its consequences to the viewer or reader. These consequences are discussed in terms of control-directed violence based on gender roles and politics, socio-cultural power, and environmental issues or eco-violence. The underlying message is that of the necessity to behave according to imposed norms, stated or implied, or suffer those consequences - a convincing leitmotif in works by Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino visual artists and writers in the Spanish language over the ages"-- Provided by publisher.
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