- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 237 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Apocalyptic futures (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Apocalyptic futures (Online)
- Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011032058
- OCLC
- ssj0000598559
- Author
Samolsky, Russell.
- Title
Apocalyptic futures [electronic resource] : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee / Russell Samolsky.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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