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Violence and Literature
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RC29 Deviance and Social Control (host committee)
RC37 Sociology of Arts
Language: French, Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
The multiplicity of forms of violence in contemporary societies – ecological violence, social exclusion, gender violence, domestic violence, racism, and school violence – come together to form a process of disintegration of citizenship. Violence also is microphysics of power, i.e. a network of powers that permeates all social relations, marking the interactions among groups and classes.
This session analyses the figuration of the following social dimensions as contained in several contemporary novels: the relationship between crime and power elites; the connection between crime and businesses, politics, and forms of corruption; the sexual violence against women and children; and finally, the cognitive mapping of the microphysics of violence.
The aim is to suggest a new genre of fiction, "the novel of violence", whose novelty can be perceived through the transformation of its narrative structure, albeit incorporating some trends of the classic detective novel and the roman noir.
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