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Metafiction, irenics and victims of terrorism in The Dead Angle by Luisa Etxenique

July 2015

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El ángulo ciego (The dead Angle) by Luisa Etxenique offers a view of the victims of terrorism which finds its essence in their irenics. Etxenique uses the metafiction and the postmodern aesthetics to enhance the message that insists on the highest dignity of the victim with no desire for revenge and within the ethic imperative to oppose terrorism. She proposes a poetics in which aesthetics and ethics are linked.

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