This special issue began as a panel at the 2016 convention of theModern Language Association. A conversation that began as an early morning conference presentation feels present in ways we could not anticipate at the time. Between then and now, theUnited States has witnessed the ascendance of right-wing populist leaders both at home and abroad, a series of high-profile domestic terror attacks rooted in white supremacist nationalism, and the #metoo movement’s insistence on the pervasive and quotidian nature of sexual violence. These events remind us not only of the violence of our particular moment, but of violence’s persistent recurrence and the fearful prospects of its futures. It seems that violence, and the plural forms that motivate it, require more than a belated sigh or an apathetic shrug—or an inchoate sputtering of shock. Violence requires that we interrogate it with a critical energy that not only seeks to understand its intentions, but in doing so, plots a path in which it is rendered less effective. This special issue thus insists that we examine not just violence per se, but what we take as violent feelings: the affective work that gives violence an intentionality that intersects the private and the public, the personal and the political. Against the backdrop of a present moment that feels weighted with violent feeling, this special issue examines literature and film to theorize the relationship between feeling and violence, the notion of feeling as violence, and the connection between affect, violence, and representational forms. Our interest in violent feelings is grounded in affect theory and its utility for understanding literature, film, and the arts—what theymean, how theywork, how theymove their audiences.We noticed that affect theorists often invoked violence as a metaphor for the mechanisms of affecting and being affected, but could do more to theorize such violence. We also noticed how recent scholarship on affect “turns on a set of shared terms: speed, violence, agitations, pressures, forces, intensities” (Brinkema xiii). While violence is often invoked as a shared term, as ametaphor for theway affects feel, the violence of affective exchange remains implicit in much of this recent work. The essays in this special issue of LITmake the relationship between violence and affect explicit, exploringnewquestions about emotion, embodiment, and representation. What is the relationship between violence represented in a text and the affective force enacted by a text? Must violence, by definition, be the infliction of physical

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（联合国）造世界：暴力感受

本期专刊是在2016年现代语言协会大会上作为小组成员开始的。从清晨的会议演讲开始的对话感觉当时我们无法预料。从那时到现在，美国目睹了国内外右翼民粹主义领导人的崛起，一系列植根于白人至上主义民族主义的高调家庭恐怖袭击，以及#metoo运动坚持无处不在和quotidian性质性暴力。这些事件不仅使我们想起了特定时刻的暴力行为，而且使我们想起了暴力行为的持续发生以及其未来的可怕前景。似乎暴力以及激发暴力的多种形式所需要的不仅是迟来的叹息或冷漠的耸耸肩，或是早期的震撼。暴力要求我们以批判性的力量审讯它，这不仅是要了解其意图，而且在这样做时，必须画出一条降低其效力的道路。因此，这个特刊坚持认为，我们不仅要检查暴力本身，而且要检查我们所认为的暴力感受：使暴力有意地与私人和公共，个人和政治相交的情感工作。在当前充满暴力感觉的时刻，本期特刊对文学和电影进行了考察，以理论化感觉与暴力之间的关系，感觉为暴力的概念以及情感，暴力与代表形式之间的联系。我们对暴力情感的兴趣是建立在情感理论及其对理解文学，电影，我们注意到，影响理论家经常援引暴力作为隐喻影响和被影响机制的隐喻，但可以做更多的工作来理论化这种暴力。我们还注意到最近的奖学金如何影响“改变一组共同的条件：速度，暴力，煽动，压力，力量，强度”（Brinkema xiii）。尽管经常将暴力作为一个共同的术语来使用，但对方式的照应会影响感觉，但在最近的许多工作中，情感交流的暴力仍然隐含着。本期LIT特刊中的文章阐明了暴力与影响之间的关系，并探讨了有关情感，体现力和表现力的新问题。文本中所代表的暴力与文本所产生的情感之间的关系是什么？必须暴力