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June 17, 2008
Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim, ’92, editors
On Violence: A Reader, Duke University Press, 2007.
The book: This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists. The book proceeds from the editors’ contention that violence is always historically contingent; it must be contextualized to be understood. They argue that violence is a process rather than a discrete product. It is intrinsic to the human condition, an inescapable fact of life that can be channeled and reckoned with but never completely suppressed. Above all, they seek to illuminate the relationship between action and knowledge about violence, and to examine how one might speak about violence without replicating or perpetuating it.
The author: Aisha Karim is assistant professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Saint Xavier University. She is a coeditor of “Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader.”
Posted by lingjiex at June 17, 2008 01:17 PM