- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
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- Binding Violence
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This chapter argues that the narrative frame of the libertine cannibal assembly line is framed by two more narrative layers, in tune with Silling's world against exchange: the voice and the gaze. Cannibal ingestion is active aggression and at the same time passive communion, erasing the difference between the other—who is ingested—and the anthropophagite. Mirroring this active/passive orality is the active/passive pair of voice and gaze as the medium through which Nature's concrete commands are externalized, delivered, and transmitted to the libertines.
Keywords: voice, gaze, bonding, cannibal, libertine, aggression, communion
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
