Apocalyptic futures marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee /
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: writing violence : marked bodies and retroactive signs
- Metaleptic machines : Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah
- Kafka and Shoah
- Kafka and Kabbalah
- Inscriptional machines
- Apocalyptic futures : Heart of darkness, embodiment, and African genocide
- Heart of darkness and African genocide
- The genealogy of apocalypse
- Delayed decodings
- Marlow and messianism
- The body in ruins : torture, allegory, and materiality in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians
- The politics of the eternal present
- Torture and allegory
- The body in ruins
- The materiality of the letter
- Mourning the bones
- Coda : the time of inscription: Maus and the apocalypse of number.